Hello Kitty

The card was released to teach young girls how to shop. Wayne, Indiana. Since 2004 the little cat has been featured on a MasterCard debit card from Legend Credit Inc. 2006- Louis Vuitton opens stores in Ft. On USA television, the American-produced Hello Kitty and Friends aired 13 episodes on CBS in 1991. 2005 - Artist Vanessa Beecroft creates performance for new store in Paris. It was first released in English in November 2002. 2004 - Louis Vuitton opens stores in New Delhi, India and Macau.

Hello Kitty's Paradise ran for 16 episodes between 1993 and 1994. 2003 - Takashi Murakami & Marc Jacobs launch the Cherry Blossom Limited Edition, Multicolore and Eye Love lines. On Japanese television, Hello Kitty (and pals) have starred in at least one anime series of their own. 2002 - LVMH releases a Louis Vuitton line of watches. Several Hello Kitty cartoons/animes targeted towards young children have been produced. 2001 - LVMH creates the Graffiti line and a Louis Vuitton charm bracelet is released. These are some of them:. 1998 - LVMH adds Marc Jacobs, who designs the Monogram Vernis line, and LVMH launches a line of travel guides to major cities around the world.

Several electronic games have been produced where Kitty appears as the main character. 1997 - LVMH launches a line of pens. She is now a phenomenon adorning over 22,000 products and accounting for half of Sanrio's $1 billion yearly revenue. 1996 - The centennial of the Monogram Canvas occurs and LVMH spotlights various designers. The very first product bearing Hello Kitty's image was a small clear vinyl coin purse which sold for 240 yen (today, roughly US$2.27, or €1.77). 1993 - LVMH launches the Taiga line, a luggage and briefcase black leather line for men. Though a large proportion of the merchandise are stationery products, other goods range from foods and clothing to computers and cars, and in Japan, its popularity has penetrated every aspect of Japanese daily life. 1992 - A Louis Vuitton store opens in Beijing, China.

Although originally aimed at the pre-adolescent female market, the Hello Kitty logo now adorns almost every product that one can imagine to have its logo on it. 1988 - The Louis Vuitton Classic Annual Automobile Race is launched in Paris, France. Singer Lisa Loeb has admitted to being a fan, and has even dedicated a whole album in homage to Hello Kitty, called Hello Lisa. The group continues to own the Louis Vuitton company and brand. Many American celebrities have contributed to the character's popularity: Mariah Carey, Cameron Diaz, Heidi Klum, Steven Tyler, Carmen Electra, Mandy Moore, and Nicky Hilton have all been spotted with Hello Kitty goods. 1987 - Louis Vuitton and Moet-Hennessey merge to form LVMH Moet Hennessey Louis Vuitton. Hello Kitty was once featured in an advertising campaign of the retail chain Target. 1985 - The Epi Leather line is introduced.

Now products featuring the character can be found in virtually any American department store. 1984 - The first store in South Korea opens in Seoul. She really came to her own during the late 1990s when several celebrities such as Mariah Carey adopted her as a fashion statement. The Louis Vuitton Cup is an elimination round in which the winner sails against the America's Cup winner from the previous year for the America's Cup. children's ambassador for UNICEF since 1983. 1983 - Louis Vuitton teams up with the America's Cup sailing race to form the Louis Vuitton Cup for Sailing. Hello Kitty has been marketed in the United States from the beginning and has held the position of U.S. 1978 - Louis Vuitton stores open in Tokyo and Osaka, Japan.

It has also been noted that the character shows a resemblance to the character Miffy, designed in 1955 by Dick Bruna and that the line drawing style is not original. 1977 - The Louis Vuitton SA holding company was created. There has been some suggestion that Hello Kitty has its origins in Maneki Neko, and that the name Hello Kitty itself is a translation of Maneki Neko, which means beckoning cat in English. 1969 - Gaston-Louis Vuitton dies. Rarer variations feature other accessories such as strings of flowers. 1968 - A Louis Vuitton sales office opens in Tokyo, Japan. Hello Kitty usually wears a bow beneath her left ear but she can often be seen with a five petal flower instead. 1959 to 1965 - 25 new models of travel items were introduced each year; a total of 175 new travel items introduced.

The current designer, Yuko Yamaguchi, explains that the lack is so that she expresses no emotion. 1959 - New innovations in the treatment of canvas allow more bags to be made, and Louis Vuitton releases a set of Monogram canvas bags. The official answer from Sanrio as to why Hello Kitty has no mouth (see external links below) is that she speaks from the heart, in no one particular language. 1951 - Louis Vuitton supplies all the travel items for President Auriol of France's tour of America after World War II. She has all the normal facial features except she has no mouth. 1946 - Louis Vuitton decides to go toward other industries instead of laying off workers in the post-war situation. Like most Sanrio characters, Hello Kitty is drawn in a cute style (see: Kawaii). A recent book by Stephanie Bonvincini, Louis Vuitton, A French Saga, has made allegations about Louis Vuitton's links with the Vichy regime and the subsequent Nazi occupation of France in the second world war.

Charmmy Kitty was given to Hello Kitty by her father, George White and boyfriend Dear Daniel. The secretary trunk is introduced for Leopold Stokowski, a conductor. Charmmy resembles Hello Kitty but has more cat-like features. Gaston-Louis Vuitton assumes control of the company. Since 2004 she has even had a pet cat of her own called Charmmy Kitty, and a pet hamster called Sugar. Estimates attribute Georges Vuitton with over 700 new Vuitton designs. Hello Kitty's fictional world includes a whole array of friends and family members. 1936 - The golden age of Louis Vuitton ends as Georges Vuitton passes away.

When Hello Kitty's boyfriend "Dear Daniel" was created in 1999, designers took his name from the 1971 film, Melody, which starred Mark Lester as a character called Daniel, and features songs by the Bee Gees. 1933 - The Louis Vuitton Speedy bag was introduced. Kitty's name came from one of the cats that Alice kept in the book Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll. This bag was made for champagne vinter to transport bottles. Hello Kitty was given an English pedigree because British culture was popular with Japanese girls at the time of her creation. 1932 - Louis Vuitton introduced the Nóe bag. who still holds the position. 1931 - Louis Vuitton introduced exotic bags such as a handbag of crocodile skin, as well as elephant hide handbags for the Colonial Exhibition.

The second designer, Setsuko Yonekubo, took over for five years until 1980 when the task was given to Yuko Yamaguchi. It could fit bottles, brushes, mirrors, powder boxes and more toiletries. Shimizu left the company about a year later. 1929 - The seventy-fifth anniversary of Louis Vuitton, a toiletry case is introduced specifically for opera singer Marthe Chenal. Hello Kitty was originally created by Sanrio designer Ikuko Shimizu in 1974. This bag foreran the duffel bag in a travel bag for light travel to keep necessities in. . 1924 - Only eight years after the end of World War I, the 'Keepall' is invented.

Copyrighted in 1976, Hello Kitty is now a globally known trademark. Store locations open in New York, Bombay, Washington, London, Alexandria and Buenos Aires as World War I begins. It is presented as a personified white cat, with the most distinctive feature being a bow or some other decoration on her left ear. The building was the largest travel-goods store in the world at that time. Hello Kitty (ハローキティ Harōkiti) is one of the many fictional characters produced by the Japanese company Sanrio, and has long been the most popular one out of the company's characters. 1914 - The Louis Vuitton Building opens in Champs-Elysees. Very close to her twin sister Mimmy. 1906 - Georges' son Gaston-Louis married Renee Versille and Louis Vuitton introduces trunks for automobiles.

Description: A bright and kind-hearted kitten, good at baking cookies and loves Mama's apple pie. In the same year, the Louis Vuitton company introduced a new line of trunks that have special compartments for items such as perfumes, clothing, and other goods. Best school subjects: English, music, visual arts, and pie eating. Louis World Fair. Collects: Small cute things like sweets, stars, goldfish, etc. 1904 - Georges chaired the jury for the St. Favorite word: "Friendship". 1901 - the Louis Vuitton Company introduced the 'Steamer Bag', a small handbag to be kept inside Vuitton luggage trunks.

mum or Mary). 1900 - Georges Vuitton was given the honor to set up the "Travel Items and Leather Goods" section of the 1900 Paris World Fair. Favorite food: Apple pie made by Mama (A.K.A. 1899 - Georges exhibited Vuitton products at the maiden Paris Auto Show. Good at: Baking cookies. He sold Vuitton products during the visit. Weight: That of three shiny apples. Georges then sailed to the United States, in which he toured various cities such as New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago.

Height: That of five apples. This can be considered the first "designer logo", since Georges was driven to create this pattern to prevent further copying of Vuitton patterns (counterfeiting had already begun by this point). Place of birth: Suburban London. It came to be called 'Monogram Canvas;' its graphic symbols were based on the trend for Japanese/Oriental designs in the late Victorian Period. Blood type: A (Negative). 1896 - Georges designs the 'Monogram Canvas' (shown to the right). Birthday: November 1, 1974. 1894 - Georges publishes his book "Le Voyage".

Name: Kitty White. 1893 - Georges displays Vuitton products at the World's Fair in Chicago. Occasionally the phrase "What the Hello Kitty" is heard as a euphemism for "What the hell". After Vuitton's death, Georges made Louis Vuitton a worldwide corporation. The yowling noises from within suggests that they were made from real cats. 1892 - Vuitton dies; the Vuitton company begins selling handbags. On the episode "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo" of the TV series The Simpsons, the family travels to Japan and passes by the Hello Kitty merchandise factory. 1889 - Vuitton wins the gold medal at the World's Fair in Paris.

A merging of Sanrio characters with the Cthulhu Mythos results in the webcomic, Hello Cthulhu [1]. Vuitton trademark"). Hello Kitty no Ohanabatake, a Hello Kitty's Flower Shop (Famicom). Vuitton deposited" or roughly "L. Hello Kitty World (Famicom). Vuitton déposée" (which literally means "mark L. Hello Kitty: Roller Rescue (Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox). 1888 - The Damier Canvas pattern is created by Louis Vuitton in collaboration with Georges, and bears a logo that reads "marquee L.

Hello Kitty: Happy Party Pals (Nintendo Game Boy Advance, THQ / Webfoot Technologies). 1885 - The first Louis Vuitton store in London opens. 1883 - Georges' son Gaston-Louis is born. 1880 - Georges gets married and (on the same day) is given control of the business. 1876 - Creation of the wardrobe trunk, which contained a rail and small drawers for storing clothing.

1872 - Creation of the red and beige striped canvas. 1867 - Vuitton entered the Universal Exhibition at the World's Fair in Paris, winning the bronze medal. 1860 - Vuitton opened a larger factory in Asnières-sur-Seine to accommodate increased demand. 1854 - Vuitton opened his first store in Paris on Rue Nueve des Capucines, founding Louis Vuitton Malletier ("Louis Vuitton Trunk-Maker").

(All trunks before this had rounded tops for water to run off, and thus could not be stacked.) Surprisingly, the Monogram Canvas design was not created until after Louis Vuitton's death; it was created by his son, Georges. Vuitton was the first trunk-maker to create a flat-topped trunk or an airtight trunk. His first piece was the grey Trianon canvas flat trunk. When Vuitton opened his first store in Paris in 1854, he began by selling flat-topped trunks that were lightweight and airtight, and were bought by France's Empress Eugénie in its first year of sale.

. Two years later, he arrived in Paris and started working as an apprentice for trunk-maker and packing-case-maker Monsieur Marechal. He moved from his hometown of Anchay, Jura, France in 1835 at the age of fourteen. Vuitton was born in Cons-le-Sannier, France.

The Louis Vuitton "LV" Monogram design can be considered the very first "designer label" on a product (first in the contemporary sense), as it was created in 1896 with the intent of preventing counterfeiting. More than a century later, Vuitton's handbags and luggage are now a status symbol around the world and are often looked to in the world of fashion. Louis Vuitton (August 4, 1821-February 27, 1892) was a luggage-maker and luggage-designer in Paris in the mid-late 1800's. Louis Vuitton biography in Toronto's Fashion Monitor.