For fashion insiders, this week’s most essential online viewing wasn’t a virtual runway show, or a Zoom chat about costume choices for the next season of “The Crown.”

On Monday morning, many of the world’s most celebrated designers, editors, stylists and other style-world elite logged onto a virtual memorial service for Ed Filipowski, the influential public relations executive who died in January.

The 40-minute online ceremony celebrated a career that helped turn designers like Gianni Versace and Marc Jacobs into well-known names, driven by Mr. Filipowski’s conviction that, as Anna Wintour put it in a prerecorded video, “talent must always find an audience.”

The invitation-only tribute was organized by several of Mr. Filipowski’s colleagues from KCD, the agency he helped steer for three decades. There were about 800 invitees; a sizable guest list, certainly, but still smaller than some of the epic runway shows that Mr. Filipowski oversaw. A RSVP wasn’t needed to watch; neither was a fear of being assigned anything other than a front-row seat.

Source: New York Times

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