Women can dream at 9 in the morning and at 10 o'clock at night - it doesn't matter.

Why not touch things that we hate and turn them upside down and inside out?

I've always said fashion is like roast chicken: You don't have to think about it to know it's delicious.

Yves Saint Laurent gave women power, Chanel liberated them and when I joined Lanvin, I thought 'what do I bring to women? One day, I received an SMS from a friend in New York - she was in a taxi on the way to court to face her arsehole ex-husband, and she said to me 'Alber, I am wearing a Lanvin dress, and I feel so protected.' That to me was the biggest compliment I ever received. To have a 500 gram piece of silk make her feel protected - that made me very happy indeed.

In fashion we're lucky, we make dreams come true.

Fashion doesn't look good only on models, it can look good on different people of different ages and different body shapes.

Elegant is not what you wear, and it's not about how you wear it, but it's more about who you are.