DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - In 1974, a designer at the Japanese company Sanrio created a whiskered, bow-wearing character named Hello Kitty. She had a white face, yellow nose and wore a blue jumper. The ...

Sanrio, the Japanese company that defined cute, is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. Its star, Hello Kitty, and more than 400 other cartoon characters continue to be popular with adults and ...

A 12-foot-tall fiberglass statue of Hello Kitty dressed as Cleopatra, “Kittypatra,” lies helplessly on her back, waiting to be raised onto her hieroglyphic-covered throne inside a gallery at Little ...

While the world continues to debate Hello Kitty’s feline and human attributes, Roy Choi will be busy crafting his version of a super-cute Spam musubi in her honor. It’s all connected to Hello Kitty’s ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Hello Kitty is one of the biggest IPs in the world, and of course, it knows how to celebrate a ...

The flamboyant designer of Japanese cartoon and global mega-brand Hello Kitty defended the cute cat against new rivals Thursday as the character prepares to celebrate her 40th birthday. The flamboyant ...

From cats and plushies to emojis, a new exhibition in London, England, is exploring the “irresistible force” of “cuteness”. Even before the doors to “Cute” opened at Somerset House, social media ...

The soft, sparse outline of Hello Kitty was first sketched by Yuko Shimizu in 1974. Having just graduated from Tokyo’s Musashino Art University, the young designer was working for Japanese toy giant ...