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Surveying the Birdcage from the top deck of the three-storey Lexus Design Pavilion, Kate Waterhouse turns down all tempting offers of hospitality, including Miyagi fried chicken and cold drip martinis. “I have a lunch sitting here at 12.30 so I’ve been saying no to all the yummy nibblies,” she tells WHO. “I’m going to have a proper lunch.”
Her Gucci knit nearly didn’t make it over the line to the Cup. “The dress is from Net-a-Porter and it arrived last night, so in the nick of time.” Because of the late arrival of the dress, Waterhouse, 32, had her Hatmaker floral headband designed a novel way: “Jonathan Howe got the headpiece together by looking at pictures of it.”
As for the real business of the day, “I haven’t looked at the odds this morning,” says the fashion blogger, but her firm tip in the big race is Excess Knowledge, trained by Gai Waterhouse: “My mum!”
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