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NEW YORK – Top fashion designer Marc Jacobs insists most fashion designs are versions of what’s gone before.

The American designer works for his own eponymous labels as well as for Louis Vuitton.

He loves everything about creating clothes, including seeing what his peers have created when it’s show time.

Marc enjoys watching how others interpret trends, adding it’s important to be laid back when contemplating how pieces are updated.

“But you know, I look around the room and I look at the work we’ve done and a quote I always bastardise but I really believe in, is something Chanel said, ‘He who insists on his own creativity has no memory,’” he explained to WWD.

That mindset came in useful recently, after Justin Bieber launched his fragrance Someday.

It’s been claimed the bottle is reminiscent of that which houses Marc’s perfume Lola, and it’s something he’s aware of.

The designer knows many have been expecting him to say something about it, but it’s not in his nature to criticise something creative.

“We just had a conversation about it. Coty said, ‘Do we sue them?’ and I said, ‘You know what? Let everyone else say what they want.’ I received Google (Alerts) about people saying it was derivative. We’re not going to do anything about it,” he explained. © COVER MEDIA, Image: Showbit