Lady Zippo – the Pin-Up lighter collection

The well-known image of the pin-up leaning forward to light her cigarette, hair in the wind, first appeared in December 1937 in the British magazine Esquire. It was the work of Enoch Bolles, one of the first and best-known glamour illustrators of the period.

The image appeared on the boxes in which Zippo lighters were packed from 1938 to 1941, after which production moved to the « black crackle Second World War » collection with simpler packaging.

The image then fell out of use and was finally brought back in 1982 on the Zippo boxes marking the company’s 50th anniversary. In 1993 it returned on « the Varga girl 1935 », Zippo having joined forces with a company known for its pin-up calendars in the late 1940s.

Vargas designed the model while Enoch Bolles created the original image, a subtlety that led to complications over copyright. Once that was settled, the well-known « Lady Zippo » was renamed « Windy » and remains very popular with collectors.

In 2013 a collection featuring Windy was issued in 200 numbered pieces, and the models can be found on our site Smoking.fr