What's the difference between chic and fashion?

Chic


Definition:

  • (n.) Good form; style.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Schyman comes across like a fusion of Germaine Greer and Ken Livingstone, dressed in Parisian chic with a maroon dress and a colourful scarf.
  • (2) "The rise of trainers and slip-ons, the Birkenstock … Certain designers are shifting our perception of chic," she says.
  • (3) At the Forum Rodgers and Chic will be part of a lineup that includes DJs past and present, from Studio 54 legend Nicky Siano to Chicago house star Derrick Carter.
  • (4) Held on the nineteenth floor of Broadgate Tower in the city, complete with panoramic views and a stunning sunset, this show delivered a wardrobe of polished separates, slick tailoring and chic dresses.
  • (5) La Perla apparently thought its chic customers – who drop hundreds of dollars on high-status underthings – would relate to, or admire, such a vision.
  • (6) Squeaky-clean Leona Lewis has covered Trent Reznor's hara-kiri-themed treatise Hurt, Beyoncé pre-empted Ke$ha on last year's Rather Die Young, and the Lynchian pretend-we're-dead poise of Lana "Born To Die" Del Rey couldn't be more cadaver chic if she started shaking with rigor mortis, maggots spilling from her eyeballs.
  • (7) This anarchic spirit was often misunderstood by readers, many of whom mistook her Catholic chic, her militantly anti-humanist fictional aesthetic and her formal elegance for the rightwing misanthropy of an Evelyn Waugh.
  • (8) The restaurant has an industrial chic feel, and a great atmosphere any day of the week.
  • (9) The hit single "Around the World" displayed a then-unfashionable love of disco which attracted the attention of Chic guitarist Nile Rodgers.
  • (10) Surroundings are chic but comfortable, children are welcome, staff are friendly, burgers are from traceable Scottish beef and start at £5.75, chips are thick and homemade, and they play old soul and r'n'b.
  • (11) It’s operated by a young, talented photographer called Bheki Dube and his influence is everywhere – the hostel decor is fantastic – think industrial-chic warehouse apartment with lots of quirky touches.
  • (12) Tobey Maguire fans – and there are many vocal and vehement ones – will insist that no one can replace the king of geek chic in the Spider suit, but they may come to accept that if anyone can, it's Garfield.
  • (13) Abo Rabieh is part of a renaissance of the Syrian art scene in recent years, with a steady stream of works appearing in chic galleries in Paris, London and Dubai.
  • (14) But while graffiti artists have benefited from the radical chic factor, the beau monde never hired street vendors to give them some rebellious cool.
  • (15) Clodia Metelli The epitome of the chic, sexy, scandalous aristocrat of 1st century BC Rome, Metelli was supposedly the "Lesbia" to whom the love-lorn poems of Catullus are addressed (and if so, a total ball-breaker).
  • (16) Six chic doubles, all but one with room for an extra bed, are tacked onto an old farmstead.
  • (17) It is not hard to imagine her, possibly wearing her stilettos, at the wheel of a heavy vehicle: chic but tough, she's a woman who bridges the divide between cosmopolitan and traditional Africa.
  • (18) The film could be said to mark the moment when the favela – previously a byword for criminality, sickness and moral depravity – started to become “chic”.
  • (19) So think twice before booking that flight (unless you're going for its other assets – its chilled-out beach towns , chic resorts , and unspoilt interior .
  • (20) A woman who sports Chanel dreams of being a chic Parisian demoiselle.

Fashion


Definition:

  • (n.) The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; as, the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc.; workmanship; execution.
  • (n.) The prevailing mode or style, especially of dress; custom or conventional usage in respect of dress, behavior, etiquette, etc.; particularly, the mode or style usual among persons of good breeding; as, to dress, dance, sing, ride, etc., in the fashion.
  • (n.) Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding; as, men of fashion.
  • (n.) Mode of action; method of conduct; manner; custom; sort; way.
  • (v. t.) To form; to give shape or figure to; to mold.
  • (v. t.) To fit; to adapt; to accommodate; -- with to.
  • (v. t.) To make according to the rule prescribed by custom.
  • (v. t.) To forge or counterfeit.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Future Brown have connections in the fashion industry, last year soundtracking a surreal film for the brand Telfar.
  • (2) Brilliant, old-fashioned speech, from the days before teleprompters became all-dominant.
  • (3) Our findings demonstrate that interleukin-2 (IL-2), but not interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) or interleukin-1 (IL-1), is able to inhibit the induction of T-cell unresponsiveness in a dose-dependent fashion.
  • (4) L-NAME abolished B contractions in a dose-dependent fashion.
  • (5) The primary focus of both nonpharmacologic and pharmacologic therapy should be to control systemic blood pressure in a simple, affordable, and nontoxic fashion that provides an adequate quality of life.
  • (6) From this proliferating layer, precursor cells migrate outwards to reach the developing neostriatum in a sequential fashion according to two gradients of histogenesis.
  • (7) He fashioned alliances with France in the 1950s, and planted the seeds for Israel’s embryonic electronics and aircraft industries.
  • (8) Ruminal digestion (% of intake) of neutral detergent fiber (NDF) and hemicellulose decreased linearly (P less than .05), whereas acid detergent fiber (ADF) digestion responded in a cubic (P less than .05) fashion to increasing concentrate level; NaHCO3 improved ruminal digestion of NDF (P less than .10) and ADF (P less than .05), but not hemicellulose.
  • (9) The latter are located within the antigen combining site, since antiidiotypic antisera specifically inhibited the binding of the corresponding immunizing anti-human high-molecular-weight melanoma-associated antigen monoclonal antibody to cultured human melanoma cells Colo 38 in a dose-dependent fashion.
  • (10) Cholera toxin reduced absorption of water and electrolytes progressively over four hours and induced secretion in a dose dependent fashion.
  • (11) It is released into the urine in large quantities and thus represents a potential candidate for a protein secreted in a polarized fashion from the apical plasma membrane of epithelial cells in vivo.
  • (12) It appears that tricyclic antidepressants act in a fashion different from opiate drugs that alter the sensory discriminative component of pain.
  • (13) Thirty patients were evaluated in a blind fashion to study the effect of oral propranolol on portal hypertension of varied aetiology.
  • (14) The molecule uncoils above pH 11.5 in a time-dependent fashion.
  • (15) Isomers and epimers of glucose influence insulin and cAMP in a parallel fashion as do sulfonylurea compounds (tolbutamide and glibenclamide).
  • (16) Based on these data, we propose that 19-oxygenated androgen intermediates are biosynthesized sequentially in a step-wise fashion as the cytochrome P450 and NADPH-cytochrome P450 reductase form transient complexes, and that the amount of isolatable 19-oxygenated androgen is proportional to the amount of excess cytochrome P450 component.
  • (17) Platelets treated with varying concentrations of collagen and thrombin released osteonectin in a dose-dependent fashion.
  • (18) If added prior to cellular alignment, immunoglobulins from this serum inhibited fusion of both rat (L6) and mouse (C2) myoblasts in a dose-dependent fashion.
  • (19) Only centralised nation states had the capacity to collect data across large populations in a standardised fashion and only states had any need for such data in the first place.
  • (20) However, as already noted by Albert (1979) this is questionable, as average disease duration and survival have increased in a linear fashion related to the number of publications devoted to this subject from 1950 on.