1.   Anthropologie.com, like the chain of brick-and-mortar stores, offers the latest in urban chic and a touch of French country flair.

2.   Both women feel at home at Vain, a Belltown mecca of magenta hair dye, industrial-strength gel, grass-roots activism and post-punk urban chic.

3.   Known far and wide for its image of extreme urban chic, exemplified by a black nylon backpack, that brand is Prada.

4.   Madison Avenue rides the wave of urban chic.

5.   Much urban chic thus dwells in beautifully engineered shoes built for strain but worn by people who would never dream of putting them to the test.

6.   This fall, Barneys New York, that paragon of urban chic, began selling Clarks for the first time, alongside Miu Miu.