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The article reports on the advancement of stylish stationery despite economic turbulence in Australia. It states fashionable stationery and storage products retailers kikki.K and Smiggle stating that their business is protected by the "lipstick index" which allows consumers to divert to affordable luxuries when economy is hard. According to commercial director Glenys Shearer of Just Group, personalisation is something that customers do not opt to sacrifice as the outcome of economic downturn.