Parfums Gianni Versace
Advertising pack for Gianni Versace perfumes.
Suitably stylish designs, as befits a world-renowned fashion house. The courts look as if they have jumped straight off the page of the great designer’s sketchbook. Versace started marketing perfume in 1981 so this pack must date from shortly thereafter (and certainly before 1985). The same perfume bottle is shown on all the Aces. The Joker also holds a bottle of perfume. Grey backgrounds throughout. The classy look is maintained on the pip cards and on the navy blue and gold box►
Above: advertising pack for Gianni Versace perfumes printed by Héron/Boéchat and published by Editions Dusserre, Paris, France, c.1982. 52 cards + 3 (identical) Jokers in tuck box. Size: 57 x 87 mm.
NOTE: I can't be sure of the exact date of this one but it must be between 1981 (when Versace started selling perfume) and 1985 (when French telephone numbers ceased to have 7 digits - there's a 7-digit number on the bottom of the box) - Roddy.
By Roddy Somerville
France • Member since May 31, 2022 • Contact
Roddy started collecting stamps on his 8th birthday. In 1977 he joined the newly formed playing-card department at Stanley Gibbons in London before setting up his own business in Edinburgh four years later. His collecting interests include playing cards, postcards, stamps (especially playing cards on stamps) and sugar wrappers. He is a Past President of the Scottish Philatelic Society, a former Chairman of the IPCS, a Past Master of the Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing Cards and Curator of the WCMPC’s collection of playing cards. He lives near Toulouse in France.
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