You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
Unfortunately, the greatest photographers don't pay extreme attention to the clothes. If they decide to put a dress in a bathtub or in front of a cow in the countryside with dirt everywhere, well, the dresses come back... ready to be put in the garbage.
Good rom-coms have some reflection of the way things are, the sign of the times.