NEW YORK — Fashion designers Levi and Reuben Uwi, survivors of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, said they looked to Africa for inspiration for their latest collection, which debuted Friday at New York Fashion Week.
The brothers, 27 and known as The Uwi Twins, unveiled “I Left My Heart In Africa!” at Gotham Hall and said they returned to the continent after 17 years to design their clean and simplistic ready-to-wear 2016 spring-summer collection.
Levi (L) and Reuben Uwi, the designers known as The Uwi Twins, appear at the showing for their Spring 2016 collection during Fashion Week on Friday, Sept. 11, 2015, in New York. AP Photo/Mesfin Fekadu
