Socialites wore their finest fascinators, and unofficially honored Flaco the owl, at Central Park’s ‘hat lunch’

Socialites donned their finest fascinators, and raised $4.6 million, connected Wednesday astatine nan famed Frederick Law Olmsted Awards Luncheon, amended known among nan precocious crust arsenic “the chapeau lunch.”

Attendees are known for wearing immoderate genuinely hype hats — and flowers, feathers, bows and beads bedecked nan chaotic toppers this year.

Randi Zuckerberg — nan entrepreneur sister of Facebook laminitis Mark Zuckerberg — and her pal, Stila Cosmetics CEO Michelle Kluz, wore lids they said honored Flaco, nan much-beloved, precocious owl who erstwhile resided successful nan Central Park Zoo.

Calling Flaco, “the personage fallen owl of Central Park,” nan duo’s looks featured flowers and twigs connected nan brims pinch faux owls perched regally up top.

“It was a nosy point for maine to effort and way Flaco astir Central Park, and we some unrecorded connected nan Upper West Side, truthful we wanted to grant him this year,” Kluz told us.

“His twelvemonth of freedom,” they mused. “He brought truthful overmuch joyousness to people.”

“I was like, convey you for doing nan difficult activity of exterminating nan metropolis for us,” Zuckerberg added.

Flaco, a antheral Eurasian eagle-owl, famously escaped from nan zoo aft 12 years location erstwhile personification vandalized his cage astatine fto him loose past year.

He past spent astir of his clip freely roaming nan park, soaring complete nan city and roosting connected nan Upper West Side.

But location was an outpouring of condolences successful February erstwhile nan vertebrate flew into a building and didn’t make it.

Socialites astatine nan chic arena included Gillian Miniter, Serena Miniter, Elyse Newhouse, Muffie Potter Aston, Fe Fendi, Alexandra Lebenthal, designer Lela Rose, Margo Neaderlander, Katherine Gage Boulud, Enrica Arengi Bentivoglio and “Law & Order” prima Stephanie March, among others.

Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who hits nan arena annually, didn’t deterioration a chapeau for nan occasion, but sang nan praises for nan park.

“It’s different 1 connected those events that could only return spot here,” he told us. “Any spot other would beryllium a copy. The history is here, nan diverseness of group is here, and nan location is here. There is nary different spot for illustration Central Park.”

When asked which chapeau was his fave, he declined to say, alternatively politically quipping, “That I would not get trapped into.”

One unsocial fascinator spotted by Page Six looked for illustration a wok filled pinch noodles.

Attendee Elizabeth R. Varet explained of nan look, “I don’t for illustration anyone taking maine excessively seriously. When I bought it, my hubby said, ‘What tin I do to seduce you ne'er to deterioration that hat?'”