1978 Magazine Advert for Silk Cut Cigarettes the Low Tar Cigarette 1970s FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY
This produced some of the most absurd advert campaigns yet in the tobacco realm.. Soon Silk Cut became one of the best-selling cigarette brands in the UK and in the '90s, other companies followed suit. This campaign continued for nearly two decades until all cigarette advertising was banned in the UK in 2002.
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The luxury of the silk and the violence of the cut seemed to invite sadomasochistic, even necrophiliac interpretations - rumours persist that Saatchi & Saatchi staffers nicknamed the first poster "silk cunt". A later poster involving a silk shower curtain prompted the following, remarkable admission from an anonymous advertising executive:
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"Silk Cunt" - Charles Saatchi's 1983 Saatchi & Saatchi ad for Gallaher that launched the "silk cut" theme - described as the most successful cigarette advertising campaign of all time. to the right is Gallaher's "Psycho" ad that followed it.. Below - 1994 (left), 1995 (right) Below - from billboards in Edinburgh around 1995.
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Silk Cut is a British brand of cigarettes, currently owned and manufactured by Gallaher Group, a division of Japan Tobacco. The packaging is characterised by a distinctive stark white packet.
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The meaning behind 'Silk Cut' was a natural cigarette. Silk is a metaphor for natural product as this is a fabric that is not man-made. And 'Cut' is the action of how tobacco leaf was cropped. Also, the dominated package color was purple, which is associated with royalty and splendor.
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This one takes me back to my school days working part time in my local Odeon cinema
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Advertisers Agencies Analysis Creative MAA blast from the past: Silk Cut 'Zulu' Stephen Foster April 1, 2020 4 261 Less than a minute This is about as woke-free as it gets, A Benson & Hedges Silk Cut cinema ad from 1970 from the clearly over-stimulated psyches of CDP's Paul Weiland and Graham Fink.
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Every day racism: this 1970s advert for Silk Cut cigarettes. YOU know that bemoaning of policial correctness, how it's always gone mad at the behest of a brigade? Well, what it does mena is that dressing John Bird up as "fuzzy wuzzy" and having his flog ciggies is no longer seen as progressive.
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Best ads in 50 years: Silk Cut showed Paul Arden's genius Best ads in 50 years: Silk Cut showed Paul Arden's genius As part of Campaign's 50th anniversary, we asked the industry to look back on the best ads of the past 50 years. We are revealing one a day for your viewing pleasure. by John Treacy Sign in to continue Sign In Email address
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This ran as a commercial in cinemas (movie theaters) in the UK during the 1970s
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This isn't the first time that a Silk Cut ad has caused a stir. The following 1980's slogan-less ad showing a piece of silk with a slit cut into it was immortalized in David Lodge's novel Nice Work. I highly recommend this roman a clef (allegedly about New York Times blogger Stanley Fish).
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Advertising campaigns In the 1970s, Silk Cut was advertised in several popular cinema advertisements, including a parody of the defence of Rorke's Drift, as portrayed in the film Zulu, and of British POWs escaping from a German prison camp.
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In the late 80s and early 90s Silk Cut produced a series of surreal advertisements. The first of these was a sheet of purple silk with an oval slit cut diagonally in the middle of it, This advertisement and the following ones in the campaign show the power of intertextuality.
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UK cigarette advertisements in the 1980s and 90s, in particular the brands Silk Cut (with ads designed by Saatchi and Saatchi) and Benson & Hedges (with ads designed by Collett Dickinson Pearce), were some of the most sublime, surreal, mysterious and beautiful ads ever produced, precisely because British law prevented cigarette ads from associat.
