Who is Hello Kitty? 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 ...

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Yano says her lasting appeal is attributed to her design, which evokes a sense of sweetness, nostalgia, and universality. “You think about 50 years of a figure, a character, a toy, like Hello Kitty.