For a delicious sepia-toned experience of pre-war Paris, this beautiful art-nouveau bistro on a chic street in Saint Germain is worth the wound to your wallet.

These retailers say Americans are growing to accept the European custom of wearing cashmere year round, a development that coincides neatly with the presence of their European-based stores on Manhattan's chic streets.

She also commissioned pieces for her Dover Street Market, which is set up like a chic indoor street fair with artists and designers hawking their wares.

Continue through the chic streets of St Germain-des-Pres home to the Paris fashion industry as well as bookshops, art galleries, antique dealers and interior design boutiques.

In Aspen, a "gentleman's club" that had opened on a chic street of antique stores and art galleries was closed last week by its owner, who left town complaining of spotty patronage in the off-season.

"A Day in the Life of Melrose Avenue," his documentary on the chic street in Los Angeles, is stored as an electronic imprint on the computer's hard disk.

He finally arrived at his destination, an old diner that was located on a once chic street, but both the diner and the street had fallen onto hard times.

On the chic streets here, short skirts are in the minority.

Nearby, av de Monte Carlo is a short, chic street with a luxury line-up: Gucci, Valentino, Hermès, Lalique (crystal) and Prada.

The Chancellor appeared to be indulging in a little diplomatic hyperbole, for much of Berlin remains a building site, the hum of economic activity is not yet widely discernible, chic streets number one or two at most, and the city does not yet offer direct flights to the United States.