Category: Billionaires
Bruce Kovner
Company: Caxton Associates
Industry: Finance
What makes them Haute: The self-made hedge fund billionaire dropped out of Harvard to drive a New York City taxi. He started his fortune with $3,000 borrowed from credit cards.

Category: Billionaires
Carl Icahn
Company: Icahn Enterprises
Industry: Finance
What makes them Haute: This real estate and finance mogul is ranked as the 20th wealthiest American.

Category: Designers
Carolina Herrera
Company: Carolina Herrera New York
Industry: Fashion
What makes them Haute: Best known for her classic minimalist designs and for having served as Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’ personal stylist for over a decade, Herrera’s design house epitomizes the essence of timeless, classic style.

Category: Thinkers
Charlie Rose
Company: Charlie Rose
Industry: Media
What makes them Haute: In a world where reality programming abounds, his show offers a refreshing and thought-provoking change, conducting interviews with an endless stream of the globe’s most interesting and influential people, such as Bill Clinton, Al Pacino, and Jonathan Tisch.

Category: Entrepreneurs
Daniel Boulud
Company: Daniel Boulud
Industry: Restaurant
What makes them Haute: His establishments have defined the haute dining scene for over a decade.

Category: Billionaires
David Koch
Company: Koch Industries
Industry: Manufacturing, energy, and commodities
What makes them Haute: This oil-and-gas billionaire is often called New York’s wealthiest resident; he recently gave $100 million to the renovation of the New York State Theater.

Category: Socialites
Denise Rich
Industry: Social
What makes them Haute: The successful songwriter is a staple in the New York society circuit.

Category: Athletes
Derek Jeter
Company: New York Yankees
Industry: Sports
What makes them Haute: He’s the heart and soul of the most storied franchise in all of sports.

Category: Power Couples
Diane Sawyer & Mike Nichols
Company ABC (Sawyer)
Industry News, Movies
What makes them Haute Emmy-winning Sawyer gives us the news and Oscar-winning Nichols provides the entertainment. The duo lives happily on the Upper East Side.

Category: Power Couples
Diane von Furstenberg & Barry Diller
Company: Diane Von Furstenberg, Interactive Corp.
Industry: Fashion, Media
What makes them Haute: The president of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, she has one of her famous wrap dresses displayed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He’s a media titan and visionary who heads New York holding company Interactive Corp.