Pythons are bashed with hammers, impaled on hooks and skinned alive to provide skins used by Italian luxury brand Gucci to craft handbags, shoes and belts that sell for hundreds if not thousands of ...

Luxury group Kering says snakes will be raised in the ‘best conditions’ before they are turned into shoes, bags and belts From Balenciaga’s £845-a-pair high-top black python trainers for men to a full ...

The market of python skin is a murky but lucrative trade based largely in South East Asia Among the grizzled delegates and hacks at this sweltering Cites conference, the well-heeled representatives of ...

Kate Moss always manages to look perfectly rumpled and rock-and-roll, no matter how streamlined or polished her outfit is. Case in point: her look at the Gucci show in Milan earlier today. File this ...

Among the grizzled delegates and hacks at this sweltering Cites conference, the well-heeled representatives of Gucci and other fashion houses cut a dash. But they weren't here for the catwalk. They ...