I'm sure PIC aesthetics were tested internally, at a minimum. So they have some indications that it'll so it's job in terms of selling units.

Honestly and personally, I find the modern clothes glams to be more immersion breaking. Sneakers, CK-style bands, hoodies are all modern, sometimes very. All this without the intervening fashion and technological evolutions that made them possible. For me, they're very out of place with no in universe explanation of why fashion suddenly shifted from medieval and Renaissance to 21st century street clothes