True. High fashion is where ideas get prototyped and the clothes sold on the high street are realistic implementations of those ideas. The target audience is not the consumer, it's the rest of the fashion industry. Designers want simply-shaped models for the early stages of the design process.

I guess it's like if you went to a high-tech trade show as an end-user, you'd by mystified why anyone would want to buy this half-finished crap, and you'd be right, but that's not what it's for, by the time it is for sale, it'll be barely recognizable as what you saw.