Two years after leaving her brand, the designer who rose to fame for her colourful prints talks about what’s next – for her and for stationery.
Lisa Gorman is wearing neutrals. This is not a commentary on her fashion sense, but for a designer who rose to fame for the bright, whimsical prints she created for her eponymous label, it feels like a step-change. Could the designer who broke the “Melbourne black” dress code be turning her back – literally – on colour?We’re meeting at Chadstone shopping centre in Melbourne’s south-east, where Gorman, 52, wants to show off the new store design for stationer Kikki.
But it’s not Gorman 2.0, she cautions. “Many people out there have only known me as a designer for the Gorman brand,” she says. “That was a time and place for me and the interest that creating something new at Kikki.K holds for me is why I’m here.” “What I thought needed to happen was a complete refresh, but what I hadn’t learnt yet was the nostalgia and the heritage of Kikki.K,” she says. “It’s on such a good footing.”That will be music to the ears of diehard fans of Kikki.K’s notepads, pens, greeting cards and other paper-adjacent products, which dominated the market for nearly two decades under Karlsson.
She says there’s also something quite freeing about stepping away from the constraints of designing clothing, at least for a while. “There’s something completely delightful about working with products that don’t need to be fitted on a human body.
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