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Socialites show off their fascinators while raising more than $5 million at the Central Park 'Hat Lunch'

Page Six·Mara Siegler·6 months ago
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Spring showers brought out hats full of flowers — and not a single petal was out of place.

A light rain couldn’t dampen spirits at the famed Frederick Law Olmsted Awards Luncheon, affectionately known as “The Hat Lunch,” on Wednesday, where the city’s top socialites tipped their brims, raising a record-breaking $5.3 million for Central Park.

Martha Stewart, who turned up at the garden party in a gold brocade coat topped with a vintage gold hat, reminisced about visiting the park with her father at just three-years-old.

Martha Stewart went for a gilded look with a gold vintage hat and brocade jacket for the Central Park Conservancy’s “Hat Lunch.” Sonia Moskowitz Gordon/ZUMA / SplashNews.com

Stewart told us she has fond memories of going to the park with her father as a child. Angelina Katsanis for NY Post

“We rode ponies in the pony ring when there were ponies here,” she told us. “We would go into the lake in a rowboat. They used to rent a rowboat for a dollar a day.…

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