For all you lucky kittens out there that are 21 and over in the Los Angeles, Ca area – spectacular night club Exchange LA is hosting a totally fab Sanrio + Hello Kitty night tonight. The event will run from 9pm until the wee hours of 3am and all the lovely ladies that show up in Hello Kitty apparel will receive free admission plus champagne, and have an opportunity to win prizes at midnight! Sounds like my kind of event!

If you happen to make it out, take some pictures for us to post! Have a blast fellow kitties, and be safe!

♥ Meow! ♥

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The president of U.S. toymaker Ty Inc., which sells popular "Beanie Baby" stuffed animals worldwide, presented Friday a certificate pledging to donate more than $1 million and a special Hello Kitty doll to Japanese Red Cross Society President Tadateru Konoe, showing the company's commitment to helping those affected by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

Ty Warner, president and chief executive officer of the Illinois-based company, pledged to donate to Japanese disaster victims via the American Red Cross $1 million, plus proceeds from sales worldwide of a $4.99 special edition of the Hello Kitty doll, with the cat dressed as a Red Cross nurse. The stuffed toy was developed in cooperation with Sanrio Co., the creator of Hello Kitty.

Last week Ty officials visited children in Ishinomaki Red Cross Hospital in Miyagi Prefecture, which was ravaged by the quake and tsunami, and donated the "I Love Japan" Hello Kitty dolls.

Warner said the company will keep selling the stuffed toy produced exclusively for the Red Cross as long as the reconstruction work from the March disaster continues.

"If I can keep Hello Kitty and if I can keep setting it at the forefront...people, I think, are not going to forget," the president said. "We will keep selling this all over the world. This clean-up will maybe take five years or more."

After receiving the donation, Konoe expressed his gratitude for a "charming gift" by the toymaker, saying he believes the stuffed animal will comfort Japanese children.

The Hello Kitty nurse doll hit the global market except for Japan in May. Consumers in Japan can purchase the product online.

If you haven't already purchased an 'I Love Japan' Hello Kitty, help the cause by picking one up today at the Ty store today!

Source: The Mainichi Daily News

Be sure to visit the Hello Kitty or Sanrio Facebook pages to find a special coupon to get a free bag of goodies when you make a $20 purchase at your local Sanrio Boutique store!

This is a must do this weekend!

If you happen to be going to Taiwan the Grand Hi-Lai-Hotel is the place to stay!

The hotel features three fully decked out Hello Kitty Themed Suites that are totally kittylicious! They even have a Hello Kitty decorated hotel car that they will chauffeur you around town in!

If you go will you stow us away in your bags so we can experience this marvelous place, too? ♥

Get your credit card handy! How could HelloKittyLover.com help feed your Hello Kitty obsession if we didn’t give you access to buy more super kittylicious stuff? The HelloKittyLover.com store is online now and provides one stop shopping for all of the Hello Kitty items your little heart desires!

The cool thing about our store is we aggregate items from great online stores like Hot Topic, Target, and Entertainment Earth (just to name a few) and bring them all on to one website so you can see all the great Hello Kitty products available without having to search all over the web! And when you’re ready to buy, you’ll purchase your selected item directly from respective trusted retailer!

Help stimulate our economy and buy, buy, buy! Be sure to check back often to see new product additions! Happy shopping!

Pynkyss, Hello Kitty’s first high end fashion brand, sent HelloKittyLover.com these first sneak peek images of some kittylicious items from their upcoming line of merchandise. The Pynkiss line will launch with more than 200 designs during Milan’s Fashion Week, which takes place from September 21-27 in Italy.

Read the press release after following great images for more information about this fabulous new line!

HELLO KITTY GETS ITS FIRST EVER HIGH-END FASHION BRAND WITH THE LAUNCH OF PYNKISS SPRING/SUMMER 2012 COLLECTION

23^rd September 2011, Milan. Over the years Hello Kitty’s style has flourished and matured into a global brand with avid followers all over the world. Now, Hello Kitty has a stylish new look – Pynkiss.

Designed in Milan by top Italian designers this high-end collection exudes sophistication, is contemporary and bold, stylish and cheeky, new and exciting, yet still authentically Hello Kitty. This is a true designer collection and is aimed at those looking for quality, along with cutting edge design and high class fashion. Pynkiss is designed for the fashion and quality conscious, from babies to teens and on to mums – a total look for all generations!

Pynkiss will launch during Milan Fashion week 2011, with a collection of over 200 head turning designs, many of which will be finely appliquéd with crystals, beads and sequins and hand- stitched and finished in Milan. The Pynkiss design team created a variety of looks and versatile collections to suit all tastes, ages and styles; regardless of age, no matter what your mood, wherever you may be and whatever you are doing.

The Spring/Summer 2012 collection’s main theme is inspired by the soft tones of the world famous Italian ice cream, while creating the epitome of all cool things by mixing fruity colours and pastel shades. This coupled with the use of soft and comfortable fabrics featuring feminine and exquisite patterns, adds to the uniqueness of the collection.  Every garment is a like a piece of jewellery, embellished with rhinestones and precious, hand-stitched details for a vibrant and shimmering look. All the designs are hand-drawn to give the Pynkiss collection its own unique and inimitable style and its colours and detailed appliqué is set to become a staple in any fashionista’s wardrobe over the coming months. Further inspiration has been provided by the colours of the Italian Rivera, seaside villages and Paris’ iconic Moulin Rouge. Key pieces in the adult range with cost between €100 (£95 UK or $150 USD) to €200 ( £190 UK or $300 USD), with T-shirts starting off at €30 (£28UK or $45 USD).

Pynkiss’ design studios are located in the very heart of Milan and the design team is made up of a creative and skilled group of people with diverse backgrounds, from stylists to graphic designers. The design team is lead by Monica Ricci, who has previously specialised in fashion accessories and over the years has honed her skills as a seasoned designer at many recognised designer labels, from the high street to high fashion, including:  Cartorama, Panini, Gut, Refrigue, MBC, Patrizia Pepe and Sanrio.

The Pynkiss collections will be unveiled as soon as its first 10 stores open in January 2012 across the Middle East and Asia Pacific. Concessions will be at leading global department stores and retails including, but not limited to: Bloomingdales, Galeries Lafayette, and high end independent retailers around the world.

As the seasons evolve, so will Pynkiss with the addition of accessories, bags and limited edition exclusive pieces; so regardless of age, no matter what your mood, wherever you maybe and whatever you are doing, you’ll find it all at Pynkiss – For All your Pynkiss life.

About Pynkiss

Founder Chady Jreige’s background is in jewellery and he studied gemology until 2001.  He was soon after approached by the French company Victoria Couture, who owns a jewellery brand Victoria Casal, and asked him to develop their business in the Middle East and North Africa regions. He put together an expert team, built the business up and took the brand to new heights. The jewellery line was such a great success that the board asked him, then, to work on the main brand, Victoria Couture and Hello Kitty, for which he, then, owned the franchise in the Middle East, North Africa and Asia Pacific. Again, this was a resounding success and Chady soon fell in love with Hello Kitty, just as the rest of the world had before him.

Chady saw there was a need for a high-end Hello Kitty brand so decided to create just that– that’s when Pynkiss was born. He approached Sanrio about a new licence for Pynkiss, which they duly granted and again set about gathering a team of experts around him. Suddenly, Chady was being approached by people across three continents with business contacts asking how they could invest in the business. Now Pynkiss stores are set to open all over the world and Chady has realised his dream for a global high-end fashion brand.

I’m so eeeexxxxccciiiitteeeeedddddd!!!

Hello Kitty has come to life at South Coast Plaza in  Costa Mesa, CA thanks to Dougherty + Dougherty Architects, LLP who constructed the fabulous feline out of 6800 cans of food (mostly tuna!). The giant sculpture titled ‘Hello Kitty, Goodbye Hunger’ depicts Hello Kitty sitting in a field with her picnic basket.

CANstructionOrange County invited Dougherty + Dougherty Architects, LLP and other leading architects in the community to create the sculptures to celebrate National Child Awareness Month and the 10th Annual Festival of Children.

If you’re on Facebook, go to the CANstruction OC Facebook page to put in your vote for our favorite kitten to win the People’s Choice Award!

‘Hello Kitty, Goodbye Hunger’ and all the other spectacular sculptures will be on display at South Coast Plaza thru September 25th, so if you’re lucky enough to be in Southern California like me, get down there soon to see Kitty up close and personal and support the event! If you’re not a lucky local, enjoy all the great pics here at HelloKittyLover.com!

Don’t be sad when Kitty comes down on September 25th…the best thing about the event is that all the cans of food will be donated to the Orange County Food Bank! How great is that? Hello Kitty alone will feed a lot of starving needy people! What an awesome cause!

Source: Orange County Register

One of my favorite shops for Hello Kitty goodies, Hot Topic is having a 50% clearance sale going on now thru Monday September 5th!

Check out these spectacular savings – they might as well be giving them away!

Hello Kitty ‘Cute – Born This Way’ Girls Graphic Tee – $7.49!

Hello Kitty ‘Afro Smile’ Girls Graphic Tank – $7.49!

Those are some steals!!! They also have a lot of awesome deals on other great brands we enjoy also – so be sure to check it out before time runs out!

Meow!

The August 2011 edition of License Magazine confirms the rumors of a Kiss x Hello Kitty collaboration that surfaced when Gene Simmons dropped the following tweet on June 19th, 2011:

Tomorrow (Sat), meeting with execs from Hello Kitty Re: a KISS-Hello Kitty worldwide deal. Wow.

License Magazine reports:

Kiss recently announced a partnership with another iconic brand, Hello Kitty, which will further expand the merchandising efforts of both properties. Furano says the new partnership, which will bring co-branded merchandise to 250 countries, will be heavily promoted during Brand Licensing Europe, Oct. 18-20, in London, and hit retail in the second half of 2012.

The same edition of License Magazine also mentions the Capcom and Sanrio Street Fighter x Hello Kitty collaboration that was announced in July of 2011:

SAN DIEGO – July 22, 2011 – Capcom® Entertainment, Inc., a leading worldwide developer and publisher of video games, and Sanrio, Inc., creator of beloved icon Hello Kitty®, today announced a partnership to create a new line of co-branded Street Fighter™ themed merchandise that will launch in fall 2012. The collaboration will be a fusion of the unique styles of these world-famous brands, yielding a broad range of merchandise featuring Hello Kitty dressed in the distinct costumes from the Street Fighter series of video games.

“Capcom has long admired Sanrio and their ability to create memorable and cherished lifestyle brands so it is a distinct pleasure to partner with them for this new cross-over line of merchandise,” said Joshua Izzo, Director of Licensing, Capcom Entertainment, Inc. “The combination of Street Fighter and Hello Kitty will offer fans a whole new way to experience our characters.”

“We are always looking for new ways to surprise our fans and partnering with a strong brand-focused company such as Capcom is a natural fit for us,” said Jill Koch, Vice President of Brand Management and Marketing, Sanrio, Inc. “Hello Kitty and Street Fighter have a dedicated core following around the world and our collaboration brings the legacy of both brands together in a fun and unexpected way.”

Specific details on the co-branded merchandise and retailer availability will be released at a later date.

Street Fighter® was first released in the arcades in 1987. This was followed up in 1991 with the smash hit Street Fighter® II, and as of April 12, 2011, the series as a whole has shipped more than 31 million units on home consoles worldwide. The innovative battle system found in the Street Fighter games helped to establish the fighting game genre for video games.

Both partnerships demonstrate just how diverse and far reaching the Hello Kitty brand spans.

Toei Animation announced today that it has partnered with Sanrio to launch the One Piece x Hello Kitty series of collaborative goods in November. The collaboration invites characters like Tony Tony Chopper from the pirate world of One Piece to play in world of cuteness that is Hello Kitty.

Since it’s release in 1997, One Piece has become one of the most popular manga series of all time world wide.

Sounds like the partnership has all the makings for success and we can’t wait to see what kind of wonderful products begin rolling out in November!

Source: animenewsnetwork.com via animeanime.biz.