How should Christians respond when evil is on trend?

After a London Fashion Week catwalk show saw models with painted black eyes, bruises and split lips, Kate Orson asks how Christians should respond to ‘fashionable evil’.

Model Irina Shayk, wore a fake black eye on the catwalk of the Mowalola SS24 at London Fashion week. Multiple models strolled along the catwalk wearing facial injuries including bruises, bleeding noses and swollen lips. The show was inspired by the 1996 film Crash which fetishises car crashes.

Fashion always pushes boundaries, but there’s something particularly distasteful about wearing a black eye. While the inspiration might have been car crashes, the image of a black eye evokes thoughts of domestic violence, as if it were cool and sexy.