Sssssssssss.L.A. fashionistas eager to get their hands on Prada's ultra-popular purple python frame handbag won't be getting it from Saks Fifth Avenue Saks Fifth Avenue is a chain of upscale American department stores that is owned and operated by Saks Fifth Avenue Enterprises (SFAE), a subsidiary of Saks Incorporated. It competes in the elite luxury department store market with Neiman Marcus, Bergdorf Goodman and Barneys New in Beverly Hills--or any other store in California, for that matter. It turns out it's illegal to sell products made of python in the state of California. Also forbidden are products made of alligator, crocodile, polar bear, leopard, ocelot ocelot (äs`əlŏt', ō`sə–), medium-sized cat, Felis pardalis, of Central and South America. It is occasionally found as far N as Texas. The ocelot has a yellow-brown coat with black spots, rings, and stripes. , tiger, cheetah, jaguar, sable antelope, wolf, zebra, whale, cobra, sea turtle, colobus monkey colobus monkey Any of 10 species of long-tailed, essentially thumbless African Old World monkeys in the genus Colobus (family Cercopithecidae). Colobus monkeys are diurnal, generally gregarious vegetarians. They make long leaps from tree to tree. , kangaroo, vicuna vicuna a species of wild llama. A small compact form, fast disappearing because of uncontrolled hunting. Their fur is much in demand for heavy fabrics. Called also Lama vicugna (syn. Vicugna vicugna). , sea otter, free-roaming feral horse, dolphin or porpoise, Spanish lynx and elephant. Saks carries the $1,590 python bag in its other stores--and online--but the company will not even ship the bags to California. Perhaps crafty L.A. shoppers are relying on the kindness of friends in other cities, though, to get their python fix: Saks' Web site notes that due to high demand, customers can't order more than three of the bags every 30 days. |
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