It’s all about Karl.

From Monday through May 10, Fendi will transform the windows of its Recent York City flagship on the corner of 57th Street in Manhattan’s Fuller Constructing to rejoice the work of the home’s late creative director Karl Lagerfeld.

Lagerfeld, who had a 54-year tenure at Fendi, is the topic of the annual fashion exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute titled, “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty.” The exhibition shall be open to the general public from May 5 through July 15.

Fendi’s flagship houses women’s and men’s ready-to-wear collections, accessories and leather goods across two levels. The landmark constructing, originally designed to deal with art galleries, was reinterpreted in 2021 in a one-of-a-kind concept realized by Fendi in collaboration with current artistic directors Kim Jones and Silvia Venturini Fendi, transforming the thought of a gallery right into a recent contemporary space.

In honor of the exhibition, the facade of the 57th Street boutique will feature Lagerfeld’s Fendi archive sketches, emblazoned across three floors of windows on digital screens. As well as, 15 archive looks designed by Lagerfeld for Fendi and chosen from the home’s ready-to-wear, fur and couture collections shall be displayed in three groups throughout the boutique’s windows, as well as to at least one inside the placement’s oversized glass sphere suspended from the ceiling overlooking Madison Avenue.

The sketches range in time from fall 1966 to couture fall 2018, representing a few of Lagerfeld’s signature designs for Fendi throughout the many years. The archival looks were chosen by Fendi’s artistic directors, with creative consultancy by Amanda Harlech. Geometric patterns are rigorously played inside the first group of looks extending from the ’60s and ’70s to a spring 2014 shaved mink fur coat and fall 1998 tulle gown. Techniques include symmetric diagonal workmanship, mink sewed in chevron patterns and silk-screen printing giving off a faded effect.

Within the second group of looks, volume and artisanal mastery are explored, featuring a fall 1979 top and pants and an inlaid geometric mink coat from fall 2000.

A set of feathered looks in mixed materials, debuted on runways from 2015-2019, brings together the third group. The glass sphere will display a spring 2000 chiffon and silver laminated sequin gown in yellow. The dress includes a unique geometric workmanship, making a patchwork effect of sequins. The look was later reimagined by Kim Jones as a mint green and silver gown within the couture fall 2022 collection, in a tribute to Lagerfeld.

Lagerfeld died Feb. 19, 2019.

Along with the flagship boutique installation, Fendi may have its presence in Bergdorf Goodman’s window display from late April through mid-May. The Recent York City installation also recognizes the Lagerfeld exhibit on the Met and includes a collection of archive Fendi looks designed by Lagerfeld from spring 1985 to 1992, including printed and colourful dresses in silk, linen and sequins.