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Fashion influencer on surviving Covid – and being trolled for it

By Anna Murphy
The Times·
11 mins to read

She's a Vietnamese heiress and style influencer who was a regular on the front rows of every catwalk show, until in February last year she tested positive for coronavirus and became fashion's patient zero. Nga Nguyen tells Anna Murphy how it felt to go from Gucci girl to social media pariah.

Remember last February, when Covid seemed to be happening somewhere else – to be someone else's problem? I was travelling for the biannual fashion shows at the time and

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