Sex, or at least sex shop chic, is definitely back on the fashion designers' menus for winter.
Here, four lives are about to get ruined – "It'll be hard for him to understand / I am his friend and he is your man / I wonder what my lady would say …" – but somehow you sympathise, not least because the chic uptown milieu of the restaurant where the lovers have arranged their tryst ("The bartender looks as though he knows"), all tinkling ice cubes and shimmering strings, is so seductive.
And, after all, it's based on the most chic and least contrived American icon--the cowboy.
The Italian spring shows have started and already there's magical connectivity to London's sports-chic, at least from Tom Ford and Thomas Tait.
Be chic, or at least wear black: 9 Great Jones Street Lafayette Streett), (212) 212-2121.
And her mismatched baggy clothes are not chic in the least.
Be chic — or at least wear black — and do not fail to check out the art on the walls by names like Peter Doig.
In 2007, Sarkozy's support was based largely on the perception that he was young (by French standards), fashionable (or, at least, he had a tres chic wife), and contemptuous of old ways of doing things.
A few years back, then Israeli ambassador to Thailand Itzhak Shoham got so irked by his failure to persuade the designer Hut to stop selling führer chic or at least take down his Adolf Hitler Ronald McDonald hybrid mannequin (which Shoham often encountered on his way to work) that he confronted Hut and damaged his displays.
