Stabilo and Kiko Milano have launched a co-created collection of lip products that carries the recognizable shape of the Stabilo Boss Mini highlighter into Kiko Milano’s beauty range. The line contains five lip shades, each named with a phrase drawn from writing and personal expression. The companies said the five shade names are meant to celebrate individuality, self-expression and confidence.
The two companies describe the project as a meeting of brands from different categories that share a belief in colour as a form of self-expression. For Stabilo, the collaboration is presented as a visible step in its move from a writing-instrument company toward a more emotional, lifestyle-oriented identity. Kiko Milano provides the make-up category context and speaks to its own community.
Five shades with writing-inspired names
The collection’s central product idea is a lip format that reinterprets the Boss Mini shape, linking the act of highlighting on paper with the use of colour on the lips. The five shades are:
- Fine Print — brown
- Afterthought — mauve
- Don’t Quote Me — orange
- On My Radar — red
- Pink(er) — fuchsia
According to the companies, the shades and names are intended to invite people to explore colour and express individual style. The collection is presented as combining the quality and attention to detail associated with both brands. The names draw on the language of writing and personal expression, including phrases such as Don’t Quote Me and On My Radar.
Leadership views
Michele Molon, CEO of Stabilo International, said Stabilo had helped generations of people express themselves through colour. He said the company was now taking that spirit beyond the page into new areas of creativity, and described the Kiko Milano project as an example of two iconic brands from different worlds challenging conventions and creating something unexpected. Molon linked that approach to the next chapter of Stabilo’s development.
Simone Dominici, CEO of Kiko Milano, said the partnership was intended to push colour and creativity further and to inspire the company’s community to highlight individual personality. He said working with Stabilo allowed Kiko Milano to carry that philosophy across product categories with a partner that shares its focus on colour and creative consumers.
Availability
The collection will be available in stores and online in Italy, France, Spain, Germany and the United Kingdom. It will also be offered through Kiko Milano’s directly operated e-commerce platforms in Europe and the Middle East.
The launch gives Stabilo a beauty-facing extension of one of its best-known product shapes, while giving Kiko Milano a collaboration rooted in a stationery colour language. For both brands, the commercial proposition rests on the same stated idea: colour as a tool for confidence and individual expression.