As the fashion bunnies take to the catwalks this weekend, something radical is happening in the sartorial heart of London: laser cutting. You no more have to be a techie to enjoy Caught in the Net, than you need to be an astrophysicist to appreciate Red Dwarf. Also he knows how to be funny as well as how to program an IBM PC; it’s a rare mix and an effective one. The show could easily have been a rather sickly technofest, but O’Brien’s a natural-born enthusiast with the ineffable benefit of objectivity. Not to mention the love interest: will the hacker get the girl before the computers get her goat? Along the way there are diversions into DIY nuclear weapons, pirate TV and Trekkies – all part of the brand new Net frontier. Her current collection is inspired by the couture houses of the Fifties and the Hollywood vamp of the Thirties – dripping in cinematic gold and silver. And, with a nod perhaps to car trimmings, some suits for daytime are piped with cheeky PVC Only 118 Rolls Royce Bentley Azures are available this year Hurry now..

The geek shall

inherit the earth
The age of the anorak is surely upon us. Dan O’Brien – computer magazine editor, Spitting Image scriptwriter and all-round digital thesp – has taken his Edinburgh Fringe show, Caught in the Net, and brought it to the West End. Based around the life and times of the Internet and O’Brien himself, Caught in the Net is a one-man-and-his-modem multimedia show. The Bentley Azure is priced at a tantalising £182,978 before tax, but unless you’re dipping into the executive trough, you might prefer the gown (below), from fashion designer Edina Ronay’s Autumn/Winter 1995 catwalk show? Ronay, daughter of Hungarian gourmet king, Egon, makes clothing worn by, among others, the Princess of Wales, Madonna and Cher. Launched this month, by Rolls Royce Motor Cars, is the Bentley Azure.

The Azure is aimed, for a change, not at cigar puffers but businesswomen in the fast lane. This may remind some of the time when the then 20-year-old Diana Dors acquired one. Lure of the Azure

The name Rolls Royce has always been synonymous with quality – used on the front line during the First World War, adapted as a war machine for Lawrence of Arabia’s desert campaigns in 1939, and the enduring symbol of state and royalty. Longden’s vision is, he explains: “Cosmic, rather than planetary.” Quite so.
The Tannery, 49-57 Bermondsey St, SE1: 12noon-7pm, Tue-Sat, 15 Mar-5 Apr. Longden collects body parts, plaster casts of bare flesh, especially pregnant torsos. “My Three Graces is a modern interpretation of a classical theme.” It’s all about rebirth, pagan sensibility and nurturing the future, but it is not entirely clear.

But there’s a degree of humour – I’m not deadly serious about anything.” This re-examination of the familiar is common to several of the artists. He develops this imagery with sprouting turnip heads presented on the desert of a white plate, set in a Star of David shaped frame “It’s the Magi I call it Three Wise Turnip Heads I’m elevating things not usually noticed to iconic form. Lover Carrots is a picture of two of the roots intertwined, apparently in the throes of coition. “They grew like that,” says Marsh, anxious to disclaim manipulation. But he has set them in a silver frame, reminiscent of Orthodox religious art, but made of flattened bean tins. “I’m looking at humble vegetables in ways you wouldn’t normally.” He’s right. And the title `Antipodes’ isn’t just about opposites, but expressing the other side of your world.” Marsh makes his living photographing food, and he’s offering the other side of that world with portraits of vegetables.