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The Hello Kitty Kitten
The life and times of a global icon |
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Sometimes the most peculiar ideas have the same effect as a plastic bomb stuck to a school principal’s chest. Hello Kitty turned 33 on November 1st and its universe has reached metaphysical proportions. Clearly inspired by a perfect specimen of solid white Himalayan Persian, the planet’s most famous round-faced kitten, with its absurd name and a simplicity bordering on retardation, is a delightful and seductive creature that’s truly hard to resist.
Hello Kitty’s world is perpetually tinted pink and it’s prissy to the point of being nauseating. An excellent idea that makes pre-teen girls happy and, incidentally, has turned its manufactures at the Japanese company Sario into multimillionaires (they have profits of 1,000 million dollars a year: that’s a lot of cat nip).
The Kitty prototype was created in 1974 by Ikaka Shimizu, one of the company’s designers. The following year, it was Yuko Yamaguchi who took over developing the creature and to this day he is still its official designer, which is a somewhat perturbing thought. Perhaps this man has gone a bit batty? ...
We’re not sure who, but someone thought the character urgently needed some sort of curriculum drawn up for it to point out all sorts of unheard-of foolishness such as Kitty White’s real size, which spans about five city blocks, or her sappy little slogan, “You can never have too many friends”.
The doll’s makers didn’t stop there; they gave Kitty a family, complete with parents, grandparents, and a boyfriend, and also a collection of friends large enough to warrant their own separate heading. We must admit that the real bombshell is a character called Charmmy Kitty, HK’s own pet. It’s a cat! And basically, all they’ve done is tousle it up a bit so it makes some sort of sense...
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