Peggy guggenheim

In celebration Peggy Guggenheim's birthday, we decode the fabulous wardrobe of the woman who changed modern art

Peggy Guggenheim

Almost four decades after her death, Peggy Guggenheim is the central figure in a continuing art-world imbroglio: the seemingly endless legal battle by some of her descendants over her superlative 20th-century art collection—and the Venetian palazzo housing it—she left to her uncle’s foundation. Have Guggenheim’s wishes been ignored and her legacy desecrated?

The legacy of Peggy Guggenheim is about more than her eccentric butterfly sunglasses and bohemian celebrity status. She’s considered the link between European and American art

With ornate eyewear, Dolce & Gabbana channeled Peggy Guggenheim. We pay homage here, to the art collector and 17 more women whose eyewear has become iconic.

Peggy Guggenheim at her home, the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni in Venice, 1960s

Peggy Guggenheim wearing Elsa Schiaparelli, c. late 1930s

In celebration of the birth of the legendary patroness, we decode the fabulous wardrobe of the woman who changed modern art

When Peggy Guggenheim moved to Venice, in 1948, the city wasn’t the floating playground for contemporary art that it is today. No billionaires had parked their collections there, no blue-chip sales directors were spending the Biennale preview week working up a sweat on the Bauer Hotel dance floor. In that year of ’48, with the entire European continent slowly recovering from the Second World War and Greece embroiled in a civil war, Guggenheim was invited to show her collection at the Greek…

Peggy Guggenheim Collection on Instagram: “On December 23, 1979, Peggy Guggenheim, patron of 20th-century art, passed away. This year the museum commemorates two anniversaries: 70…”