Princess Isabelle

Princess Isabelle Lafforgue is an internationally renowned lifestyle consultant specializing in interior and floral design, as well as event planning and decoration. She is foremost a designer and entrepreneur who has founded her own company in Hong Kong, Isabelle International Design, and has been successfully serving a unique clientele of top hotels and corporations across Asia, Europe and the US for the past 25 years. She has created masterpieces for some of the most prestigious galas and extravagant weddings in the international community. These events have received acclaim and high praises, and are memorable due to her unique attention to detail and creative magic that are evident in her life-sized floral designs, undoubtedly the extension of the majestic aura she possesses. Owing to her gentle and responsible nature, which resonates in her work with flowers, she is at the same time an enthusiast and advocate for peace. Due to her warm heart and understanding for the needs of the underprivileged, she has been involved in charitable work since her very young age.

Her long relationship with the Philippines has been one of love and commitment, manifested through her humanitarian engagements in the country and in her role as a Member of the Board of Trustees and Director General of the Gusi Peace Prize International in Manila since 2009. In March 2014, she was crowned in a grand ceremony in the Philippines as first International Princess of Mindanao and honored the title of Ambassador of Goodwill at Large. The ceremony was presided over by the Supreme Tribal Chieftain in Cagayan de Oro City in Mindanao and attended by government officials, Filipino Royalty, community leaders and tribal chieftains. She is the first foreign national in the past 300 years to be acclaimed and bestowed the title of International Princess of the Tribal Peoples of Mindanao. Her role is to protect and unify the tribal peoples and contribute to the socio-economic development of Mindanao and its communities comprising of 34 million people. Her focus will be on business development and education as well as on bringing in international investors and humanitarians to assist in her projects geared towards benefitting the tribal peoples of Mindanao.