The former editor-in-chief of the New York Observer, Peter Kaplan became the editorial director of Fairchild Fashion Media in 2010, which includes Women's Wear Daily and Style.com.

The sole survivor of the Camelot White House, Caroline Kennedy is a writer, philanthropist, and keeper of the Kennedy flame.

Greenburger chairs Time Equities, one of the biggest co-op conversion firms in the city. He also runs the literary agency Sanford J. Greenburger Associates, which was founded by his father.

The daughter of Vogue editrix Anna Wintour, Bee Shaffer is as close to fashion royalty as you can get. Born in London, Shaffer moved to the U.S. as a baby when her mom landed the plum job of Vogue editor. (Her dad is David Shaffer, who is currently chair of the child psychology department at New York-Presbyterian.) For the record, her real name is Katherine. So why Bee? She says she couldn't pronounce her name as a kid, but she could say "Bee," which is what everyone soon started calling her.

The child of an alcoholic legend, Minnelli is Hollywood royalty, a serial bride, and a total nut.

Fashion industry survivor Diane von Furstenberg presides over an empire that includes clothing, fragrances, and accessories. She's married to media mogul Barry Diller.

Linda Kaplan Thaler, founder and CEO of the agency that bears her name, is a seminal figures in contemporary advertising history.

Love him or hate him, Jim Cramer is America's most famous stock market pundit. The former hedge fund manager is the host of CNBC's Mad Money, an author and chairman of TheStreet.com Inc.

Nederlander is a Broadway producer and president of the Nederlander Organization, one of the city's largest Broadway theater chains.

Ken Chenault is the chairman and CEO of American Express.

Jimmy Nederlander is the chairman of the Nederlander Organization, one of the largest theater chains in New York, and the patriarch of New York's most prominent theater family.

Formerly a Republican U.S. Senator—he represented New York from 1981 to 1999—D'Amato is now a lobbyist and speaker-for-hire.

New York's feisty, zany mayor from 1978 to 1989, Koch has been a lawyer, film critic, TV judge, crime novelist, and pitchman since retiring from politics.

The fashion critic for the New York Times, Horyn has made waves with her brutally honest reviews of haute couture.

Spooner is the hyper-dramatic frontman of electropop group Fischerspooner.

One of the most famous (living) members of the Kennedy clan, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is an environmental attorney and activist as well as a potential political candidate.

The head of the litigation department at Debevoise & Plimpton, White was the first woman to be named U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.

Banker-turned-politician Jon Corzine is the former Governor of New Jersey who decamped to ill-fated MF Global Inc. in 2010.

Danish-born Christensen was one of the top supermodels of the 1990s. Now semi-retired, she's branched out into photography, design, and activism.

The Prada-wearing Devil herself, and the most powerful name in the world of fashion, Wintour has been the editor-in-chief of Vogue since 1988.