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...What's your favorite of all the designs you've done? Abby Amberson, Madison, Wis. The [1994-1996] Face series, which generated a real Kitty boom. Until then, Kitty was designed for children and I carried around Hello Kitty merchandise only as samples, because I was the designer. But I actually bought up to 20 pieces from the Face range - five for myself and the rest for my friends - because I knew that from then on nobody would be telling me that Hello Kitty was just for kids...
...there an item that we will never see Hello Kitty on? Dorothy Ho, Seattle Knives. The knife-killing rampage in Tokyo in June made me feel even more certain that we are right about not producing knives...
...What will Hello Kitty be doing in 10 years? Catherine G. Pilie, Covington, La. In 10 years' time, everybody around the world will know her. Also, the number of male and female fans will be the same. Men who are still reluctant to be seen with Kitty in public today might be wearing Hello Kitty boxers. But they will eventually stop being shy and will show off Kitty proudly...
What inspired you to work with Hello Kitty? -Soyeun Yang in Superior, Colorado Hello Kitty debuted in March 1975. From about 1978, she stopped selling well, the second designer left and just when I thought that the company would not be looking for a third one, the president said that Hello Kitty came to an existence as a symbol of friendship and therefore he could not allow her demise. I won the company's competition and became the third designer in January...
...When did Hello Kitty spread across the globe? -Sonika in Edison in New Jersey Nobody knew her in 1984 in the U.S. where I spent a year designing and people referred to Kitty just as a cat. In Japan it was in 1997 that the celebrities began to talk about her as being a cute character thus generating a boom. The same phenomenon occurred in the U.S. and later, from around 2002, in Europe...