Yuko Shimizu, the Sanrio employee who created Hello Kitty, told BBC that her design for the character was "a white cat with a red bow in its hair." She added how the inspiration behind the ...

Yuko stepped away from Sanrio in 1976, shortly after Hello Kitty's invention, to get married and focus on her newly-growing family, but the illustrator's winning idea would spark a legacy for the ...

It’s 50 years since the creation of one of the world’s most recognisable characters, Hello Kitty. In 1974, a 24-year-old Japanese illustrator called Yuko Shimizu put pen to paper to draw the ...

Although Hello Kitty has been in the public eye for decades now, there are still numerous facts about the character that even the most dedicated fans may not have heard of before.

As Hello Kitty approaches her 50th anniversary—which will officially occur November 1—fans are in a frenzy over lesser-known facts about the Japanese cartoon character created by Yuko Shimizu ...

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