{"id":75906,"date":"2019-03-22T03:45:51","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T01:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=75906"},"modified":"2019-03-22T03:45:51","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T01:45:51","slug":"lilly-alfonso-off-to-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/03\/22\/lilly-alfonso-off-to-egypt\/","title":{"rendered":"Lilly Alfonso off to Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Sam Banda Jnr: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_75909\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-75909\" style=\"width: 288px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/lilly-alfonso.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-75909\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/lilly-alfonso-288x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/lilly-alfonso-288x300.jpg 288w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/lilly-alfonso-32x32.jpg 32w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/lilly-alfonso.jpg 351w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-75909\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ALFONSO\u2014I would like to thank God for giving me talent<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Renowned designer Lilly Alfonso leaves the country today for Egypt, where she has been invited to the 5th Edition Summer 2019 International Fashion Awards.<\/p>\n<p>Alfonso is set to be awarded.<\/p>\n<p>A letter from International Fingerprint, dated February 5 2019, says the International Fashion Awards will be held at Semiramis Intercontinental Hotel starting from March 24 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Alfonso\u2019s invitation follows her participation in two events in Egypt last year, when she exhibited her designs.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cYou will be honoured in the festival of excellence and creativity,\u201d<\/em> reads part of the letter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The designer, who was recently featured on CNN\u2019s <em>African Voices<\/em>, said she was excited to be invited to the International Fashion Awards.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThis award is coming after my participation in the trade fair and fashion show. The Expert Development Fund and other players such as Mzuzu Coffee, Macoha and Gemstone Association of Malawi sponsored me to attend the fair,\u201d<\/em> Alfonso said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The inaugural Intra- African Trade Fair was held in Cairo from December 11 to 17 2018.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThis is an event that made things possible for me to be part of those who will receive an award. I am very thankful to Expert Development Fund for sponsoring Malawi businesses,\u201d<\/em> she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From Egypt, Alfonso is set to attend the Africa to Africa Women\u2019s 4th International Women\u2019s conference to be held in South Africa on March 29 to 30 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The designer is expected back from Egypt on March 28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sam Banda Jnr: Renowned designer Lilly Alfonso leaves the country today for Egypt, where she has been invited to the 5th Edition Summer 2019 International Fashion Awards. Alfonso is set to be awarded. A letter from International Fingerprint, dated February 5 2019, says the International Fashion Awards will be held at Semiramis Intercontinental Hotel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75910,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75906\/revisions\/75910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}