I think fashion is about longevity and doing your work. It isn't about winning or losing. It's about process, keeping it going.

Making them feel gorgeous and comfortable is my way of making women's lives easier.

A fragrance is a veritable story, told and explained in scent, in notes, in impressions. It's a score based on the emotions of each instant, a captivating music of the senses.

Pure, intense emotions. It's not about design. It's about feelings.

When I'm traveling the world, I don't ever look anymore at the geography - just enough to catch galleries and paintings.

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.

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