It's an important question. Italian fashion house Missoni guarantee us that their new season's knitwear certainly is. The Missoni brand might not be as well-known among the proles as Italian heavyweights Armani or Versace, but Missoni is top table clobber for the discerning fashionista. And, the family has motorcycle nuts running right through it. The second generation Mr Missoni, the late Vittorio, was an off-road rider and sponsor of Dakar racers, and the current generation

Remember the Benedict Redgrove Dragster Driver images? Or the same photographer's award-winning DTRA images? Well, they were both manipulated and retouched by INK, a specialist in the art of photo enhancement. INK's latest project is Plain Bodies. It's a slightly unusual project, but shows some of the firm's capabilities. Legendary racing cars have been recreated using CGI programmes, Computer-Generated Imagery. This isn't a photo that has been digitally stripped of its colo

The Dakar Rally is underway and, with now satellite or cable TV, I'm catching up via Red Bull's own Dakar Daily. The highlights program is light on action and heavy on 'features' presented by two a couple of typical presentery-type presenters who tell us how rad everything and emote to camera, which almost makes it unwatchable, but hell, it's free content, stop bitching. Day one's big interview was with Red Bull-sponsored Bryce Hankins, a trophy truck driver from the US, sign