Fendi celebrates 80 years at All Hallows Eve Party
Renata Espinosa

NEW YORK—Karl Lagerfeld’s Fendi collections may be visions of the future – he consistently makes the label’s signature fur couture the most daring and imaginative in the industry - but last Saturday night’s 80th birthday bash for Fendi in New York was all about affirming the label’s longevity and place alongside the classics amidst an ancient Roman party them.
Held at the tip of lower Manhattan at the former Cunard shipping building - a dramatic space of soaring marble archways and columns and frescoed ceilings - Fendi’s All Hallows Eve party transformed the abandoned space into a lavish palazzo fit for an emperor to entertain his faithful subjects.
In this instance, the heads of state hosting the evening’s festivities were Fendi CEO Michael Burke (appropriately dressed as Caesar - “Oh, I dress like this every day in Rome,” he joked, “This is not a costume!”), Fendi men’s wear and accessories designer Silvia Fendi and Karl Lagerfeld, Fendi women’s wear designer. Both will join Burke again this coming Thursday for the highly anticipated opening of Fendi’s new Peter Marino designed Fifth Avenue flagship.