Meet Twin Designers Ayaan and Idyl Mohallim Ayaan and Idyl Mohallim were born in Alabama but raised in Somalia. At a young age, they returned to the U.S. due to a civil war erupting back home. They moved right outside Washington, D.C., in Northern Virginia. As a way to understand their new surroundings, the twins turned to fashion. They didn't speak any English, so their mother would buy them fashion magazines. They couldn't read the language in the magazines, but they understood the photos, "f[...]