You ever wondered where's the high fashion African-inspired clothing? Where is it? Well we have Identical twins: Ayaan and Idyl Mohallim were born in Somalia, but left for the United States aged nine to escape the civil war. These two have been have on the upcoming in the New York fashion scene. These two college educated ladies are trying to blend the culture of their native country of Somali with that of classic American pieces. They express distaste for designers using expired ideas to signify African prints and textures. Ayaan is quoted as saying "So the world's taking notice. It's not about designers going to Africa for a safari and coming back with an animal print and big bangles and saying 'here's your one trick pony.' They also noticed that a lot of clothing in Manhattan is "Black Chic" they want to change that. "We came into this industry and realized that with a lot of the clothes that we saw, everything was black."These two were featured on CNN "Inside Africa" and are getting a lot of buzz, hopefully this will transcend into more sales of their awesome spring 2010 line. These girls have been featured on Oprah, in Essence magazine, and Clutch magazine, I'm ready to see them succeed. We need more Afro-Centrism in the fashion Industry.
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