T.W.A. Hotel: You May Want to Stay at Kennedy Airport. By Choice. Seriously.

Is it possible that Kennedy Airport is going to be fashionable again?

Given that J.F.K. is often voted among the worst airports in the United States; given the fraught state of many airlines today, what with Boeing’s safety concerns and the Wow Air bankruptcy; and given the general malaise around air travel as an experience to be endured, preferably with the help of some Ambien, rather than enjoyed, it’s hard to imagine.

And yet designers are casting their eyes, not skyward necessarily, but to a long-abandoned terminal in the heart of Kennedy Airport, the transformation of which could (maybe, possibly, if they have anything to do with it) change the image of the much-derided port of entry.

The terminal in question is the old T.W.A. Flight Center, designed by the Finnish architect Eero Saarinen in 1962 to sit like a bewinged white U.F.O. amid the tarmac. Closed since 2001, it was a ghostly relic of space-age architecture. In 2016, the Port Authority granted the developer MCR/Morse the rights to restore it to period glory.

In May it will reopen as a 512-room hotel replete with the kind of time-traveling touches, including Knoll furniture, a sunken lounge bar and rotary phones in every room, that generally serve as Pavlovian bells for the style-minded.

No wonder Louis Vuitton announced that it would hold its resort show — which has in the past taken place at the I.M. Pei-designed Miho Museum in Kyoto, Japan, and the Oscar Niemeyer-designed Niterói Contemporary Art Museum in Niterói, Brazil — in the hotel on May 8.

The following week, when the hotel officially opens, guests will find themselves met by “greeters” in T.W.A. uniforms of yesteryear by designers like Valentino, Ralph Lauren and Oleg Cassini (just in case anyone needs reminding that once upon a time even the most haute designers saw the aisle as a potential catwalk).