A Colombian handbag designer has been sentenced to 18 months in prison after federal prosecutors said she illegally smuggled handbags made from caiman and python skin — both protected species — to New ...

Handbag designer Nancy Gonzalez, whose animal skin-based accessories helped style stars such as Britney Spears and the ladies of "Sex and the City," was sentenced to 18 months in prison after pleading ...

A handbag designer who enjoyed a roster of celebrity clients like Britney Spears and Victoria Beckham in the early 2000s was sentenced to 18 months in prison after she pleaded guilty to smuggling ...

A Colombian fashion designer whose clients include A-listers Britney Spears and Victoria Beckham has pleaded guilty to illegally smuggling her high-priced handbags to the US. Nancy Teresa Gonzalez de ...

MIAMI -- Colombia extradited renowned designer Nancy Gonzalez to the U.S. for allegedly illegally shipping products made from the skins of endangered animals. Gonzalez and her business partner, Diego ...

SARASOTA — A Venice flower dealer moonlighting as an elite python hunter is collaborating with a Sarasota fashion designer to create a line of snakeskin clothing to help raise awareness about the ...

The non-native snakes are overrunning Florida and must be eliminated. Fashion designers are determined to make sure their remains don’t go to waste. Most Burmese python hunters dispose of their snakes ...