What’s going on at kikki.K? Let’s Ask Lisa.

Under the creative watch of Australian design icon, Lisa Gorman, kikki.K has been brought up to speed to meet the lifestyle needs of a person on the move. Every piece is created to keep up with you - whether you’re planning, documenting, commuting, or chasing adventure.

Lisa’s arrival at kikki.K brings a wink of humour and a nod to the nostalgic heritage of the brand, turning everyday essentials into pieces created with purpose and personality. From notebooks to weekend duffels, kikki.K champions a life in motion—where style, function, and a spirit of play go hand-in-hand.

What’s going on at kikki.K now? Let’s ask Lisa!

Do you have a kikki.K mission?

I like to think we take some of the annoying questions out of daily decision making, like – what should I wear today? What’s my schedule today? What should I put all my stuff into today to get out the door? Where’s my phone? Where are my keys? And get you off to wherever you’re going feeling reasonably unfrazzled.

We all want a little less frazzle and that starts with some level of organisation - and looking good while we’re at it! We’re about helping you to navigate life in your own personal style.

What’s your idea with the broadening mix of products in a business that started out as a stationery store over two decades ago?

The new chapter in the kikki.K story is about Lifestyle, meaning we now offer a curated collection of the things you use to move through daily life in a functional and organised manner. I believe that a brand in this day and age shouldn’t need to adhere to traditional product categories, but instead celebrate the brand handwriting more broadly - which is why clothing can co-exist alongside stationery in our offering. In the kikki.K sense, they’re both about purpose.

Tell us a bit about the clothing we’re seeing pop up in stores.

kikki.K apparel is about offering pieces across the season, not strictly as S/S and A/W traditional collections. I think the concept of smaller capsule collections in good quality fabrications that stand up to high rotation wear, offering versatility and function to your wardrobe is the way forward for kikki.K apparel. Like all products at kikki.K, there’s a fashion edge, but always with a nod to purpose – apparel included.

Luggage is the latest addition, why luggage?

Luggage is a natural evolution of the kikki.K travel accessories range, but a quick study of the carousel at the airport will tell you that by the most part, suitcases are boring. We need to fix that.

Luggage has lagged behind its fashion counterparts (think of all the handbag choices out there) forever it seems. Maybe that’s got to do with the primary purpose of the suitcase being such a functional work horse in the past, rather than anything you might have appreciated aesthetically. Now, the point is you can have both.

Interest in travel is rising - Australians have always been a particularly intrepid bunch - and it’s driving an increased desire to seek out luggage and travel organisation that speaks to the individual. People generally like a choice that represents their own personal style.

So what’s it like designing luggage?

I’ve designed an array of different things over my career, but luggage is a whole new world of engineering, specialised production machinery, new-age materials and technology, functionality, internals, externals, finishes, zips, fastenings, locks – and wheels. This is my first product on wheels in fact, and I can now tell you a thing or two about a wheel! We’re using 360° Hinomoto Japanese spinner rubber wheels, for super quiet, smooth sailing all the way to the departure gate.

Going back to where it all started for kikki.K, is there still a future for paper?

The digital age has taken all of us along with it in varying degrees, but paper holds a nostalgia that cannot be replaced by a screen. Paper is a completely different experience, one that is tactile and regularly sought out as a relief from the digital world.

You can walk into kikki.K today and find the same 100gsm parchment ivory pages you’ve always found, wrapped up in today’s version of a notebook, planner, calendar or diary, amongst our classics like the Sentence A Day favourite. Stationery is where the brand came from. We’re certainly not leaving that heritage behind and are in fact completely overhauling the Stationery offering with consideration to what paper means to people in today’s world.

Keep your eyes peeled for the Paper relaunch this July ’25.