Gipsies

The mark of cigarettes Gitanes is one of the mark of the group Altadis. This mark is very popular in France

Conditioning

The packages of the Gitanes were always original, this grace, in particular, with famous draftsmen like Maurice Giot. This one represents the typically Spanish symbols like the tambourine and the mantille.

During the Second world war, the dancer gipsy incarnates the mark, it and its wide dress is drawn by Mollusons then are altered by max Ponty, which masks partially the dancer in the volutes of smoke.

In 1970, one gives to the dancer a more elegant line, more in the air of time.

The colors of the package are the white, blue and the black. They remain.
with the passing of years Each package contains twenty cigarettes

History

  • 1910 : Appearance of the Gipsies without Filter in four versions.
  • 1918: Appearance of the Gipsies Corn , it is a success in rural environment.
  • 1956: Appearance of the first Gitane filters .
  • April 1981: Appearance of the light versions.
  • January 1988: Appearance of the versions extra light
  • 1991: Appearances of the Gipsies ultra light .
  • 1986: the the SEITA (former owner of the mark) lance the first version of Gipsy blondes , it is a failure because that does not correspond to the public image,
  • 1990/91: simultaneous launching of the new version of blondes with the ultra light this time Ci, Ca goes.
  • 1999: Fusion of the the SEITA and the Spanish group Tabacalera which gives birth has Altadis, producer current of the Gitanes

Product of the range

  • Gitanes Brown without Brown Filters
  • Gitanes Filters
  • Gitanes Brown light (Blue)
  • Gitanes Blondes
  • Gitanes Blondes Lights
  • Gitanes Corn

Famous smokers

  • Porco Rosso, the famous pilot of film of Hayao Miyazaki smokes of the Gipsies
  • Serge Gainsbourg even lent its silhouette to a package; at the time of its death, a publicity in the last page of the number of the Journal Release which was dedicated to its biography indicated in hangs: " The inspiratice"
  • Carmelo Bucket, man of Theater
  • Arsene Lupin III
  • Albert Camus, writer and philosopher French
  • Romain Caramalli, Industrialist in the tobacco industries
  • Slash, Guitarist of Pink Guns'

Formulate 1

Gipsy was one of principal the sponsorts of the stable of Formule 1 Ligier. A large silhouette gipsy was then represented on the high air intake, behind the pilot.

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