The collections of where the clothes came from don't really have heavy themes (i.e. Goth) and since you are presenting different looks of different designers it was okay that the background was simple. The models also did have a sort-of commanding prescense and the clothes were lovely that's why it looked good to me.
Inspired by Softgrey asking in the Horst Diekgerdes thread, "Do we have a Craig McDean story?" I couldn't believe there wasn't one....he's one of my favourites!
Hana, do you mean he doesn't have a very distinctive style that means you can pinpoint him straight away as being the photographer? He does seem to shoot quite differently from story to story...