3 Apples

Audrey, Anita, Jeanne and I went to the 35th anniversary of Hello Kitty art exhibit held at Royal-T Cafe and Art Space in Culver City.


To commemorate Hello Kitty's birthday, Royal-T hosted various artists' artwork as well as Hello Kitty products, all for viewing to the public.  We arrived at around 7:30 pm, and the place was packed.  Not only were there tons of people, there were Hello Kitty products everywhere, there was a "real" Hello Kitty walking around taking pictures, and tons of Hello Kitty artwork.  It was interesting to see how far Hello Kitty has come since her kitten days.


None of us remembered to bring our cameras, so we relied on our cell phones.  I took a lot of pictures, but a lot of them are kind of grainy.


As a side note, anyone know the significance of "3 Apples"?


This is the event poster:

When you first walk into Royal-T, the exhibit was laid out so that in the beginning, you saw all the Hello Kitty products.  Among all those products was this Swarovski crystal-encrusted Hello Kitty by Kimora Lee Simmons.  I thought it was a very blinged out necklace.

Apparently, I was wrong, as demonstrated by Lady GaGa.

There was also the actual Hello Kitty dress worn by Lady GaGa in her photo shoot especially for Hello Kitty's anniversary.  The dress is strapless.

Then, there was the shot of Lady GaGa pretending to be Hello Kitty.  It was a bit frightening.

Moving back further into the space, we saw what would happen if Hello Kitty threw up.

After all the Hello Kitty products, there were art pieces created by various artists for the 35th anniversary.


I really liked this one by Tokidoki.

One aspect I did really like about this exhibit was that it wasn't all cutesy.  There were some ironic ones, scary ones, tongue-in-cheek ones, etc.  Here were the ones I liked.

This sculpture reminded me of Murakami's creations.  It was all very cool.

And finally, so cute!

So what is the significance of 3 apples?  It is supposed to be the weight of Hello Kitty!