Socialites, stars and the sun came out for the famed Frederick Law Olmsted Awards Luncheon on Wednesday, where the city’s most glamorous women showed off their finest fascinators to raise $4.3 million for Central Park.
Scarlett Johansson was spotted cutting a stylish and low-key figure at the event, thrown by the Central Park Conservancy’s Women’s Committee and affectionately known among the elite as “The Hat Lunch.”
The Marvel star wore an all-black ensemble (perhaps a reference to her Black Window character) including large hat dramatically covering half of her face, helping her avoided any fanfare as she hung out with a group of friends at a flower-filled table.
Martha Stewart, a regular at the event, wore a vintage gold hat from Arts and Ends in Bar Harbor, Maine, cracking to us that she got it “since I love gold.”
Stewart told Page Six she loves the event because: “Where else can you see ladies in hats, except at the Derby maybe. If you get to go to the Derby. But here you can see 1200 ladies all dolled up and it’s fun.”
When we asked event regular and former mayor Michael Bloomberg what draws him to the benefit, he joked to us: “Nobody ever accused me of liking men.”
“Central Park is one of the great parks in the world,” Bloomberg told Page Six. “It’s inconceivable to think of New York or America without Central Park. It’s a park that is open to everybody of every background and every economic level and they get along in ways that I don’t know any other place that they do this.”
Attendees showed off all manner of creative and beautiful toppers, ranging from headdresses made from real flowers to feathered numbers and wide-brimmed boaters.
A whole table of women all wore hats with the theme of New York City. One wore a hat with a giant bejeweled red apple, while another showed off a look that had miniature taxis cabs adorning it. Other hats were in the shape of a Broadway marquee, Yankees stadium, the Empire State Building.
Several guests were seen wearing hats depicting the park itself.
Socialites at the chic event included Gillian Miniter, Serena Miniter, Elyse Newhouse, Muffie Potter Aston, Fe Fendi, Alexandra Lebenthal, designer Lela Rose, Margo Neaderlander, power publicist Susan Magrino, Jenna Segal and the Daily Front Row’s Eddie Roche.
Guests were spotted taking pictures in front of a flower wall set up by Harry Winston, which sponsored the chic luncheon.
Norma Dana, one of the original founders of the Central Park Conservancy Women’s Committee, was given a tribute during the event.
Dana passed in 2024 at the age of 93.
Central Park Conservancy’s Women’s Committee President Jenny Price was also honored.