Pictorial Of Eva Ionesco //top\\ | Playboy Italian Edition October 1976 Classe Del 1965

Eva is made up like a silent film star: heavy kohl eyeliner, pale foundation, crimson lips. She wears sheer stockings, lace garters, high heels, and little else. In one now-infamous shot, she reclines on a chaise lounge holding a cigarette holder, her expression one of bored, spectral knowingness. In another, she peers through a shattered mirror, her prepubescent silhouette reflected infinitely.

By age 11, Eva was already a European scandal. Her mother’s work was exhibited in galleries, praised for its "artistic subversion" by some, and condemned as child pornography by others. When Playboy Italy came calling, they were not hiring an unknown. They were hiring a known quantity: the living embodiment of the "Classe del 1965" fascination. Eva is made up like a silent film

What the October 1976 pictorial likely represented In another, she peers through a shattered mirror,

From a modern perspective, the pictorial is difficult to view and is widely considered a dark stain on the history of the magazine. When Playboy Italy came calling, they were not

: This vintage issue is highly sought after by collectors of 1970s ephemera and can occasionally be found on secondary markets like eBay or AbeBooks .

The pictorial itself, photographed primarily by her mother Irina (with some shots attributed to studio assistants), is a dark, baroque fever dream. There is no bubble gum or beach blankets. Instead, the reader finds Eva posed in cluttered Parisian studios—heavy drapes, taxidermy animals, decaying chandeliers.