Described as “the most successful restaurant creator and investor in Britain” by Newsweek, Arjun Waney is the Karachi born septuagenarian behind restaurants in Dubai, Istanbul, London, Malibu and New York that number such hotspots as Coya, La Petite Maison and The Arts Club. Waney began his culinary journey after realising “that every time [he] called up Nobu, they were always full and wouldn’t give [him] a reservation”. After one rejection too many, he “told the girl, don’t worry, I will open my own Japanese restaurant” and did just so with the chef Rainer Becker in launching Zuma in Knightsbridge in 2002. He is also known as a generous philanthropist and admits to having spent his youth in the company of the great gamblers John Aspinall, Sir Jimmy Goldsmith and Kerry Packer.

The Roll Call - TRENDSETTERS

1

Arjun Waney

2

André Balazs

3

Danilo Tersigni

4

Nati Abascal y Romero-Toro (formerly The Most Excellent The Duchess of Feria)

5

Oliver Kremer

6

Hugo Campbell-Davys

7

Kate Spivak

8

Jon Levy

9

Michael Polenske

10

Rosemary Conley

11

Francesca Bortolotto Possati

12

Barbara Hulanicki OBE

13

Kelly Hoppen MBE

14

Victoria Beckham

15

Joy Venturini Bianchi

16

Lillian Pulitzer Rousseau (born Lillian Lee McKim; 1931 – 2013)

17

Tom Ford

18

Harry Handelsman

19

Martha Stewart

20

Sara Murray OBE

21

Jo Malone MBE

22

Sheikh Majed Al-Sabah

23

Erik Wachtmeister

24

Natalie Massenet

25

Nicky Haslam (Nicholas Haslam)

26

Hugh Warrender

27

Chris Corbin OBE & Jeremy King OBE

28

Lapo Elkann

29

Charlie Gilkes