2011 May 5

!! All Hats Are On !!

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*(NEW YORK)* Around noon on Wednesday, an elegant, umbrella-laden
crowd lined up patiently outside the Vanderbilt gates of Central
Park's Observatory Garden. A block of Fifth Avenue (around 104th
Street) had been sanctioned as a drop-off space for the Town Cars,
Escalades, and plain old taxis that deposited the 1,280 guests to the
Central Park Conservancy's 29th annual Frederick Law Olmsted lunch.
 "It's record-breaking," said CPC women's committee chair *Gillian
Miniter* of the event, which raised over a whopping—wait for
it—$3.2 million for the Park. The luncheon is entirely underwritten
by the benefit committee (and its generous co-chairs *Virginia
Apple*, *Anne Harrison*, *Julia Koch* and *Lizzie Tisch*, along
with corporate chair *Robert E. Diamond, Jr.*, chief executive,
Barclays PLC), so the funds from each and every ticket sold go
directly to path maintenance, tree clean-up, daffodils—you know, all
the stuff that makes the Park that luxurious, indulgent,
pseudo-backyard that all New Yorkers know, love, and profit from.

It is also worth mentioning that this event is referred to as the "hat
luncheon," and the milliners on the Upper East Side are grateful.
Highlights included *Mary McFadden*, in a yellow straw band studded
with small white flowers, *Amy Fine Collins*, who opted for a silk
butterfly so extreme it would have looked right at home in Jurassic
Park, and *Sandra Lee*, whose ruffled white fascinator resembled a
gargantuan gardenia. *Martha Stewart* was so delighted that she
table-hopped, digi-cam in hand, and asked permission before snapping
away. One Martha superfan just couldn't help herself—she stood up
right in the middle of the beet and watermelon salad and took an
iPhone snap, for which the media impresario smiled gamely. *James
LaForce*, *Sylvester Miniter*, CPC president *Doug Blonsky* (in a navy
baseball cap), and *David Patrick Columbia* were among the heroic,
happy few men on hand to witness *Judith-Ann Corrente* receiving the
2011 award for her service to the Park. 

*Linda Fargo*, *Julia Koch*, *Eleanora Kennedy*, *Karen Le Frak*,
*Michelle Smith*, *Grace Hightower de Niro*, *Glenda Bailey*,
*Evelyn Lauder*, *Fe Fendi*, and *Lydia Fenet* were just a few to
draw the attention of one *Bill Cunningham*, whose On the Street
column that chronicles this particular event is, for some, its ne plus
ultra. "Loved the movie, Bill!" trilled one, but the lensman was
unmoved.  There was work to be done.
ASHLEY BAKER

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