In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, a Hello Kitty trend expert and anthropologist Christine Yano, who has spoken with Sanrio, says she was told sternly not to confuse Hello Kitty with a cat. While preparing a script
The apparently shocking revelation was made in an LA Times article published Wednesday about a retrospective of Kitty paraphernalia opening next month at the Japanese American National Museum. The story started
"Hello Kitty works and is successful partly because of the blankness of her design," Yano says. "People see the possibility of a range of expressions. You can give her a guitar, you can put her on stage, you can portray her as is. That blankness gives
Hot news out of Japan: Hello Kitty–a stuffed animal that looks like a cat, talks like a cat, and is named after a cat–actually isn't a cat at all.
According to the Los Angeles Times, Christine R. Yano, a professor and author, has spent years studying Hello Kitty and is studying objects that will be part of the Japanese American National Museum in LA this fall. Yano told