But once again the iconic character’s parent company is saying she’s no feline. “Hello Kitty is not a cat,” Jill Koch, Senior Vice President of Marketing and Brand Management at Sanrio ...

Is she a cat, or a girl, or just iconography for countless products? In a new interview with Today, Sanrio executive Jill Cook explains Hello Kitty's essence. "Hello Kitty is not a cat.

Let’s start by setting the record straight. Hello Kitty is not a cat. She is actually, according to Sanrio, the company behind the global mega brand, a girl named Kitty White. Kitty’s not even ...

That allowed the cat to appear anywhere - from 2D designs on stationery and Eva Air jets, to 3D Hello Kitty impersonators in commercials and events. There is only one rule: Hello Kitty will not do ...

And that's just in Japan, her literal birthplace but not the ... power of Hello Kitty. Forget the understated wabi-sabi aesthetic historically associated with Japan. A chameleon-like cat-girl ...

I try not to keep track, but probably enough for a house deposit." The fictional character was created in 1974 by Japanese company Sanrio. While she may look like a cat, Hello Kitty is a bright ...