The iPod owners who own PC's and go to the unrelentingly chic stores for an expert's help are often seduced by Apple's self-conscious hipness.

Mr. Questrom's departure signals the most dramatic in a series of changes at one of the world's most chic stores.

Jerry had brought along a shopping bag from one of the chic stores on the street and carried the cocaine in it to his own car.

But it has a whole different feel from those chic stores that sell farm relics at unbelievable prices.

In Denver they found chic, modern stores.

Several of the chic small stores on Madison Avenue have closed for vacation.

She lines the racks of her impossibly chic eponymous store in Chicago with fashion, as opposed to inventory.

Recreation, not chic stores, draws people to Ulster County, he said.

Still, it's far from clear that Fifth Avenue's chic stores will fall like so many dominoes.

Will chic retail stores follow?