Axl Rose loves Fashion Week. Mr. Rose, the Guns N’ Roses frontman, reintroduced the band to Manhattan tastemakers in a surprise performance during Fashion Week two years ago after a long absence, and he has chosen this year’s event to stage Guns N’ Roses’ three-night residency in New York.

It’s no wonder he appreciates Fashion Week. Each season it celebrates fads reappropriated from the past, proving that mainstream taste is cyclical. Mr. Rose, who turned 50 on Monday and who will soon be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, seems more content than ever to wait for the public’s taste to swing back in his favor.

As he demonstrated on Friday at the Roseland Ballroom, the residency’s first evening, he clings to his bombastic, outmoded brand of rock and feels no need to modernize it. It is fitting that, in the current ’90s revival dominating runways and rock ’n’ roll, he again refuses to adapt to the rough-hewn form of rock now in vogue, like that which dethroned him in 1992, when Nirvana made Guns N’ Roses’s decadence seem hopelessly uncool.

In many ways the Roseland show could have happened at any point in the 25 years since Guns N’ Roses released its seminal first album, “Appetite for Destruction.” The nearly three-hour show was laden with familiar extravagances: grandiose guitar solos, the band’s aggressively priapic stage presence, Mr. Rose’s multiple costume changes and pliant snake dance. Yet it was a far more streamlined production than past outings; it almost started on time, with nary an onstage tantrum. Mr. Rose remains the sole original member, though the keyboardist Dizzy Reed has hung on since the early 1990s. The backing musicians suggested a giddy, faithful cover act.