What do some of our best-known culinary stars say to this timeless but nigh-on impossible question? After shifting uncomfortably in their chairs first, that is

Chefs share their early memories of connecting with food, from fishing for seabass to adding lime to Campbell's condensed chicken soup

From fish ovaries and the palpitating heart, blood and bile of a snake to cockroach and dog: chefs have eaten it all

From Dairylea Dunkers to McDonald's milkshakes, top chefs share their secret food loves. Some are a bit peculiar – cold burger or dried-up Haribo jellies, anyone?

From trying to grate melting butter to throwing away £400 worth of white truffles and stabbing colleagues with knives, chefs share their biggest kitchen errors

As a new exhibition of the his life's work opens at the Design Museum in London, the British designer talks about working without a plan. 'I never think about anything really,' he explains. 'We never had these huge aspirations'

Designer Alexander Lewis talks about the years he spent on Savile Row, his life of travelling between London and America, and what André Leon Talley taught him

David Neville and Marcus Wainwright take their inspiration from the well-turned-out British rag-and-bone men they remember from their childhood

Studio XO is a fashion and technology company that strives to make its inventions as wearable as they are innovative. Benjamin Males and Nancy Tilbury talk us through a world of seemingly endless possibilities

Edward Sexton, master tailor, and Claire Malcolm, creative director at Hardy Amies, discuss working life at the British home of tailoring, Savile Row in London

The third and final part of our exclusive three-part series on the story behind Valentino: Master of Couture, focuses on the finished exhibition