Collab-Ho: MAC and Hello Kitty

Edited by Rebecca Alexander

MAC Cosmetics has teamed up with Sanrio Global Consumer Products to create a Hello Kitty color cosmetics collection. It will feature lipsticks, lip glosses, eye shadows, pigment, glitter, nail polish, and more in shades of pink, turquoise, lavender, and green.

The line will arrive on MAC’s Web site Feb. 10, in North American stores on Feb. 12 and into overseas stores in March.

“MAC has been mining pop culture since the brand was founded,” said John Demsey, group president of the Estée Lauder Cos. Inc. “This is a sexy and innocent fashion line, and a true MAC moment. In these times, everyone can use a little fun — and a little Kitty.”

“The partnership was a no-brainer,” said James Gager, senior vice president and creative director of MAC Worldwide….

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Tom Sachs’ Bronze Collection

Edited by Rebecca Alexander

When Tom Sachs first unveiled Hello Kitty Nativity, his polarizing Christmas window decoration for Barneys New York in 1994, it was clear that here was an artist who had a firm handle on the psychology of consumerism: he calmly replaced the Virgin Mary with the (equally) iconic Hello Kitty doll and, for good measure, dressed it up in Chanel and Nike.

In the ensuing years, Tom Sachs has demonstrated, time and again, this deft touch for mixing irony with a great deal of chutzpah in subverting every day popular culture. This week, Sachs shows new works in New York that should cement this reputation. Commissioned by the Lever House Art Collection, the Bronze Collection revives Sach’s love affair with Hello Kitty while indulging an apparently ongoing disregard for the Virgin Mary; his 12-piece cast-bronze ensemble displaces Damian Hirst’s Virgin Mother statue.

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Hello Kitty in John Galliano for Dior Hits the Pages of Vogue Nippon

Edited by Saynt

Completely thought I’d hate this, but it’s camp appeal can’t be denied. Hello Kitty hits the pages of Vogue Nippon this month wearing every item from John Galliano for Dior’s spring collection. The bobble headed Kitty may actually be a positive role model. She’s far from thin and exudes a style way beyond her years.

The issue follows someone in a cat suit as she travels Japan. How freaky would it had been to see woman in a cat suit heading towards you in couture?  Hurry up and make a US tour Kitty, I need a new Facebook pict and I think one with you would be keen.

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