There's the big sign on the side of their headquarters next to the Yankee Doodle Bridge in Norwalk, the playful slogan "Do you get bear naked?" and the metro-chic plastic bags with the sleek bear-claw logo.
Most important, their leak-proof rubber linings provide a chic alternative to plastic bags and lumpy rolled-up towels for carrying soggy bikinis in transit.
Albers and Willig worked with Yves Béhar, founder of Fuseproject and a thought leader in sustainable design, to create a reusable glass bottle that looks chic and eliminates plastic waste.
Fans from across Asia and elsewhere make pilgrimages to South Korea to attend their album releases, concerts and awards ceremonies, or just to stroll around the Gangnam district, renowned for its pricey bars, chic boutiques and plastic-surgery clinics.
Unless, of course, it's a compact, chic, beautifully crafted, Italian plastic water butt.
He also liked the "'70s chic" Joe Colombo black plastic armchair from Property, but for different reasons.
At a popular mixologist's bodega-chic bar, car-wash plastic stands in for a door and expertly crafted drinks are beside the point.
Models wore knee-length fur gilets with patterns that gave them the feel of royal ermine, paired with leather tracksuit trousers and chic leather versions of 5p plastic bags.
Those who fancy themselves sophisticated, like some of my newer neighbors, don't plant plastic; nope, they choose chic silk.
She clearly has the Batsheva formula down cold: intense physicality, primal eroticism, ritualized behavior and propulsive music, plastic wrapped in affected frenzy and disaffected chic.
