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Renata Espinosa Mon Oct 31, 1:23 PM ET

fashion Wire Daily – 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.

“It’s very hard to have fun on a Saturday in New York City,” explained Burke, as to why they decided to have a Halloween party for the Fendi birthday bash. “I just wanted a small party for 20 of my best friends…I have a lot of friends in tonight, and instead of going out to a restaurant, we decided to have a small party and then it just grew into something a little bit…out of control,” Burke laughed. “This is not what I had planned!”

The circus maximus that took the place of a quiet dinner with friends included everything from stilt-walkers dressed in Balinese-esque attire to go-go dancers perched high atop Roman columns. There was also an endless supply of dance music courtesy DJs Mark Ronson, Q-Tip and Jeremy Healy. Revelers – including Ashley Olsen,

Gina Gershon, Valentino, Zac Posen, Tommy Hilfiger, Andre Leon Talley, Jack McCullough and Lazaro Hernandez, Natalia Vodianova and Justin Portman, John Varvatos, Julia Roitfeld, Alvin Valley, Zaldy, Phillip Bloch and Stefano Tonchi – happily danced the night away or took a break by lying on faux-fur covered beds as sipped Veuve Clicquot or Red Bull and vodka cocktails and munched Roman-style on globe grapes, parma prosciutto, cheeses and at midnight, huge bowls of truffled pasta.

While not officially a costume party, the majority of guests opted for some form of festive attire, costumed or otherwise – a handful of Roman soldiers, the usual bevy of sexy fill-in-the-blank costumes, i.e. sexy nurse, sexy police officer, a samurai, Rainbow Brite – and plenty of Fendi fur. The other popular look for the evening? Black, black and more black, clearly the New York social season’s early frontrunner for the titled of Most Embraced Fall ’05 Trend. Either that, or they were all getting into the Gothic Halloween spirit.

As to be expected, there were also a few faux Karl Lagerfelds, but missing from their costumes was the entourage that typically accompanies Lagerfeld anywhere he goes. Saturday night was no exception, with his arrival setting off a fireworks display of flashbulbs as he made his way to the venue’s VIP section. Compared to the lush palazzo setting on the other side of the velvet rope, though, this VIP section felt more like a cattle corral or prisoner’s quarters. So after the requisite photo ops, Lagerfeld and Silvia Fendi braved the masses and stepped onto the dance floor for a few minutes, seating themselves on the steps just below the DJ booth where they took in a view of the dancing debauchery.

Later, at around midnight as singer Angela McCluskey took the stage and crooned a special birthday song to Fendi, fashion Wire Daily asked Lagerfeld what he thought of this celebration of Fendi’s 80 years.

“I hate birthdays,” Lagerfeld proclaimed after saying his hellos to Valentino, who had just arrived on the scene. “It’s more like a new starting point in New York. For me, it’s an evolution. I don’t celebrate the past. I like the present and tomorrow.”

The future is exactly what Fendi will nurture with their new fellowship for emerging designers at the American Academy in Rome, a partnership that will also be celebrated at the store opening this week.

“I think it’s important that people like us, who have a big history, to help the young people, because this is a beautiful world,” said Silvia Fendi.

The house of Fendi was founded in Rome in 1925 by Edoardo and Adele Fendi, who opened the first handbag shop and fur workshop there. The creative energy of Rome is one of the reasons Fendi decided to establish the prize there, said Burke.

“You know, they’ve never done this before,” Burke said. “They do it with the ‘serious’ arts. When we went to the American Academy and we threw this idea up, [fashion] was not on their radar screen. They were not thinking of fashion as something that was up in the league with the antiques, urban studies, and architecture, and poetry – the classics. But somehow, today, fashion has really morphed into something much bigger than it was. With fashion, because there’s so much immediacy, and our shows are so globally broadcast, it may be the most immediate visual manifestation of the zeitgeist.”

The number of fellowships in fashion that will be given out is still under discussion, according to Burke, but one fine point of the fellowship was clear.

“We do want to send American kids to Rome,” Burke emphasized, “to learn the classics, and then of course then trash them, and re-interpret them, and be very contemporary with it.”

By classics, he’s not talking Armani, Versace or even Fendi for that matter. No, this unusual fellowship will be more akin to the “Great Books” school of fashion: “The Romans, the Greeks, the Renaissance, Raffaelo…you need to know your classics,” said Burke.