“Undoubtedly, Hello Kitty—as product, as logo, as design—is artistic expression.” Christine Yano makes that assertion in Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty’s Trek Across the Pacific, her new ...

Credit: Hazel Zakariya Don't play with your food, we're told, but we know that doesn't apply when it comes to latte art.

She has pawssibly the most famous face in the world. She is petite—standing about five apples tall—and she’s a Scorpio who hails from London. Her full name is Kitty White, though you probably know her ...

Back in August Hello Kitty made the news when it came to light that she wasn’t a cat, but a little girl. The revelations were courtesy of Dr. Christine R. Yano, who learned this fun “fact” from Sanrio ...

Brandi Milne remembers the exact moment she discovered Hello Kitty. She was 7 or 8 years old and she wandered into a small Sanrio shop at the Buena Park Mall. “I had never seen anything like that ...

As big Hello Kitty fans, we were fortunate enough to attend Hello! Exploring the Supercute World of Hello Kitty, which opened on Saturday. Held at the Japanese American National Museum, it is the ...

Hello Kitty is one of the biggest faces of kawaii culture, and people around the world know her face like it or not. In the last few years, the franchise has exploded in popularity, and everything is ...

TOKYO--Hello Kitty turns 50 on Friday. Befitting a pop icon at midlife, the bubble-headed, bow-wearing character's fictional ...

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 ...

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 ...