Sentence examples for chic status from inspiring English sources

Murray was equally suspicious of the chic status sometimes bestowed on black people and black culture by mainstream white society.

If it has traditionally been a symbol of Main Street pride, increasingly it's being used as a chic status symbol for upscale retailers like J.Crew and Gilt Groupe, which have created special marketing around American-made goods, the New York Times reported.

Fiji's luxury-chic status has always been directly tied to the idea that this is a rare substance from an exotic place.

If there's any evidence (besides rising real-estate prices, of course) for the Hudson Valley's new semi-chic status, it's Bard SummerScape, the annual performing-arts cavalcade that Leon Botstein, the president of Bard College, has commanded since 2002.

By Russell Platt If there's any evidence (besides rising real-estate prices, of course) for the Hudson Valley's new semi-chic status, it's Bard SummerScape, the annual performing-arts cavalcade that Leon Botstein, the president of Bard College, has commanded since 2002.

While iPads and iPhones have become badges of western chic and status to upwardly mobile Chinese, they are usually the last to be able to buy them directly from Apple stores.

Sure, he has read articles saying that sleep is chic, the ultimate status symbol for a new class of high-powered, showily laid-back executives.

OBLIVIOUS to Hamptons chic, style and status stands Amazonia Grill-Churrascaria in Southampton, offering not creative, cutting-edge dishes at often extravagant prices, but plate-filling portions of robust Brazilian peasant fare.

"Luxury-brand logos convey wealth, status and chic," Thomas explains, "even if the bearer of the logo-ed product is a middle-market suburban housewife who bought it on credit".

In the end, I ended up seeing a weird iPod shuffle festival of my own creation, which ranged from Chic to Chase and Status, to Solange and the Bootleg Beatles.

Now her Nicole Bakti cocktail dresses and pink-labeled "Donna's Chic Boutique" bottled water (a status symbol at local gyms) only add to Avondale's aura.