Our hotel, Klaus K (klauskhotel.com), is modern and chic, peppered with intriguing art and full of people who look like famous architects.

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In an all black set, Francisco Costa showed a Calvin Klein collection that was supremely modern and incredibly chic with shapes that both cocooned and fell away from the body.

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Carrie Underworld channeled her inner princess in an Oscar de la Renta ballgown and Julie Bowen of Modern Family wore a chic black number from Doo.

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The chic lobby features modern seating with international power outlets discreetly placed at the base of each.

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Scuba chic has given modern fashion some of its most influential looks.

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The result-sleek, modern, elegant, restrained-was deemed so chic that Architectural Digest devoted a pictorial to it in 2002.

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In sync with the rise of modern, international-style hotels is a boom in chic international restaurants.

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Located in a chic part of the 7th arrondissement with a modern and airy decor, Coutume offers a menu of daily-changing coffees in several incarnations -- espresso, decaf and filter -- the beans for which are sourced by the owners and roasted onsite in the enormous roasting machines at the back of the shop.

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The Ville Nouvelle -- modern Marrakesh -- is just outside the medina, and neighbourhoods like Gueliz and Hivernage are home to many chic restaurants and shops.

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