Today, in the tea room of this Bayswater hotel, she is chic in jeans and black top with a brown leather jacket draped over her shoulders.
Split-level haircuts were chic in 1976, but Mary's was special: a classic Louise Brooks bob with tightly wound pigtails attached.
It is chic in certain circles in Los Angeles to say that the pictures aren't up to the building, but people who have bothered to look at them don't say that.
She was sitting on the red sofa in the living room, looking as unfazed as she was chic in a belted top, a pair of slim pants and suede Prada heels.
Yet here she is, chic in black, articulate in several tongues, at the annual meeting of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, protesting the state of the globe.
(Those airy, open totes are chic in theory, less so during rush hour when you must clench your arm tight as a heron's wing over the bag if you want to get home with your wallet).
This is this glimpse of a very masculine world, though the rockabilly girls, when they do appear, are chic in polka-dot tops, matching stockings and 50s flared skirts.
This concept of being chic in Hockney's Northern England countryside had a graphic side: a new version of the designer's signature long slim pencil skirt, seamed with a "V" from hip to thigh; dense embroideries like mother-of-pearl on a black jacket; or the designer's new interpretation of her favorite jumpsuit, as a nude satin top joining black high-waisted trousers.
Alfred Soto from Stylus Magazine felt that the song was chic in its style.
And, mon dieu, according to the New York Times, burgers are Chic in Paris now!
