The non-native snakes are overrunning Florida and must be eliminated. Fashion designers are determined to make sure their ...

Designer Elle Barbeito with a python skin from a 10-foot snake that she and her father caught. She skins the invasive snakes in her father’s Cutler Bay backyard before crafting them into edgy ...

As Elle Barbeito's garments go out into the world, a piece of the Everglades goes with them. By Alexandra Martinez. January 4, 2022. Artist Elle Barbeito hunts for invasive pythons to create ...

Elle Barbeito is not one of them. Elle Barbeito, fashion designer: “Burmese pythons, they are from Southeast Asia, and they’re a really beautiful snake, they really are.

On a muggy summer evening, Elle Barbeito's gaze lands on a blur of grass and cypress trees as she cruises down a dirt road in the Everglades. She pulls her black hair into her teal tie-dye hoodie to ...