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Fashion influencer on surviving Covid – and being trolled for it 11 minutes to read By: Anna Murphy 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 the first cracks began to appear towards the end of Milan. The week had opened with one of the season s hottest tickets, the Gucci show. Sitting on the second row was a 27-year-old Gucci fan by the name of Nga Nguyen, the daughter of a Vietnamese property magnate, and her sister. Not that anyone cared at the time. ....