I suppose they can't make outfits until they know the "theme" of each week etc? Which means she must have had the same time as everyone else, but she certainly had longer to up her ideas in general. Plus the rare gift of retrospect to improve on her work and...well
I feel like $$$ will always help a less talented queen paper over the cracks, but an imaginative and skilled queen without it, could probably hold their own. Whichever way you swing it, I don't think cash was the problem with this week's runways