I have a grim outlook on the world and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.
But it seems that the judging maybe they shouldn't at least see the practices all week long. That can taint the way they go into the judging and the outlook of what's going to happen instead of just watching those four minutes and judging on those minutes alone.
Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem the most important problem is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.