I stayed firmly out of the way while my curiosity about the behind the scenes process of running a fashion show got the better of me, though I had to admit as I lurked and watched the models doing their catwalk best while being berated and sometimes belittled by their handlers, I found myself becoming rapidly disillusioned by the whole thing.
Sure, I'd had kind of the same experience last winter when my mother had been purposely sabotaged by a fellow contestant on Bake or Break, the cooking show that ended this season thanks, it was said, to the death of head judge Ron Williams. Even though it came out he was a thief and a fraud, his popularity with the viewing public had obviously been the driving force behind the success of the show, something it couldn't survive.