{"id":78388,"date":"2023-05-14T09:00:13","date_gmt":"2023-05-14T07:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rafz.com\/goodbyekitty\/"},"modified":"2023-05-05T01:36:16","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T23:36:16","slug":"goodbyekitty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rafz.com\/en\/goodbyekitty\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye Kitty"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\" id=\"wpb-content-root\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Born in 1974 in Japan, Hello Kitty has become an international phenomenon over the years. Especially for about ten years, roughly from 2005 to 2015, she was omnipresent everywhere: depicted on the most commonly used products as well as on super-luxury ones. A true pop icon. And like any self-respecting icon, there were people who madly loved her (especially the younger girls) and people who deeply hated her (a minority, but still many all over the world).[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=&#8221;78849&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Raffaele Iannello, to bring together both types of public (i.e. those who loved it and those who hated it) in 2012 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rafz.com\/en\/media\/nhow2012\/\">presented<\/a> the prototype of the Goodbye Kitty knife set. The idea was that this product could finally please everyone. To those who loved her and didn&#8217;t want to miss a new version of their favorite character and to those who hated her and who would finally satisfy their desire to see her pierced by knives.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;78941&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;78944&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;78947&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row content_placement=&#8221;middle&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]The first piece of the character&#8217;s name in this interpretation is no longer &#8220;Hello&#8221; but has ironically become &#8220;Goodbye&#8221;. Goodbye Kitty is practically the Hello Kitty version of the famous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rafz.com\/en\/voodoo-theex\/\">Voodoo \/ The Ex<\/a> set created by the same designer. The famous kitten is depicted in the same position (i.e. on tiptoe, with arms forward and head stretched back) as the stylized little man and both are placed on the same circular base which acts as a support for the entire set of knives.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;78855&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=&#8221;78858&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1683233163788{margin-bottom: -20px !important;}&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Although by now it had been engineered, tested with various prototypes and ready for mass production, the product never went into production because the designer&#8217;s licensees, after years of negotiations that now seemed to have concluded positively, never reached a definitive agreement with Sanrio on Hello Kitty trademark use rights. 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