movers and shakers.(Ivanka Trump)(Interview)

At around a quarter to nine one evening, Ivanka Trump, vice president of real estate development and acquisitions

at the Trump Organization, arrived at New Jersey's Teterboro Airport from the New York set of her father's hit television show, The Apprentice, just one of her many jobs she tracks on her busy BlackBerry. Wearing a fitted gray silk jacket, a knee-_grazing black skirt, and her favorite Stuart Weitzman stilettos as if they were penny loafers, she was boarding the corporate jet of her _jewelry-line collaborator, Dynamic Diamond, along with Rachel Roy and me to fly to Chicago to tape the Oprah show. The two were being featured on a segment titled "What the Stylemakers Can't Live Without," and I had hitched a ride to sit in the studio audience. (My only reason for being there was as a friend. When Rachel had to cancel a birthday lunch for yours truly after producers contacted her, I E-mailed back, "No one says no to Oprah.")

Ivanka came with Alexa Rodulfo, her hair and makeup stylist, under contract to The Apprentice. "I am an eyelash kind of girl," says the daughter of The Donald, who, if you listen carefully, has many of his inflections. Like her famous dad, Ivanka could be called a tycoon. After all, at the age of 26, she has achieved what some take decades to build: a solid career in real estate as well as a just-_launched jewelry line and a Madison Avenue boutique she likens to "an intimate boudoir." You think there's going to be a conversation about shopping and jewelry, but you end up totally impressed by her articulation of her raison d'etre, her sense of who she is as a businesswoman, and her complete focus on work. You sense, given her impeccable manners and deportment, there are no Dom _Perignon-_fueled scandals, no litany of superplayboy boyfriends gone through like a box of Kleenex. Ivanka grew up in a house where she wasn't allowed to watch television or eat sugar (although we three tore through the cheese plate during the ride). Up since her usual 6:00 a.m. wake-up time, Ivanka decided to catnap, loosening her tightly coiled hair and turning her head toward the oval window. Her long legs stretched across to the empty seat in front of her, and her repose was as seductive as a subject in a languid Sargent watercolor. Roy whispered to me, "How can we learn to look like that sleeping?"

Along with her brother and partner Donald Jr., she is amassing property with the conviction of Ayn Rand's Howard Roark. She worked on the Trump building project in Philadelphia, and now she's in charge of Chicago's new luxury condominium, the Trump International Hotel & Tower, opening in the spring. ("_Ninety-two floors and the tallest residential building in North America!") She speaks fluently ...