Heiress reportedly tests positive for coronavirus after attending Milan, Paris fashion weeks
Updated 09 March 2020
Arab News
DUBAI: A Vietnamese socialite has tested positive for Covid-19 after flying to Milan and Paris to attend Fashion Week before she was diagnosed.
The 27-year-old was in attendance at the Gucci show in Milan on Feb. 19 and the Saint Laurent show in Paris on Feb. 25, the South China Morning Post reported this week.
Hundreds of people attended the shows, including fashion editors and bloggers from the Middle East.
Nga Nguyen, the daughter of the steel magnate, was diagnosed on March 6, along with her sister, 26-year-old Nguyen Hong Nhung, according to the report.
Many top fashion editors and department store buyers who attended back-to-back shows in Paris and Milan are in self-imposed quarantine after returning home.
Vietnam has so far reported 29 cases of the coronavirus.
‘One in a Million’: Syrian refugee tale wows Sundance
Updated 24 January 2026
(AFP)
PARK CITY: As a million Syrians fled their country's devastating civil war in 2015, directors Itab Azzam and Jack MacInnes headed to Turkey where they would meet a young girl who encapsulated the contradictions of this enormous migration.
In Ismir, they met Isra'a, a then-11-year-old girl whose family had left Aleppo as bombs rained down on the city, and who would become the subject of their documentary "One In A Million," which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on Friday.
For the next ten years, they followed her and her family's travels through Europe, towards Germany and a new life, where the opportunities and the challenges would almost tear her family apart.
The film is by directors Itab Azzam and Jack MacInnes. (Supplied)
There was "something about Isra'a that sort of felt to us like it encapsulated everything about what was happening there," MacInnes told an audience at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah on Friday.
"The obvious vulnerability of her situation, especially as being a child going through this, but that at the same time, she was an agent.
"She wasn't sitting back, waiting for other people to save her. She was trying to fight, make her own way there."
The documentary mixes fly-on-the-wall footage with sit-down interviews that reveal Isra'a's changing relationship with Germany, with her religion, and with her father.
It is this evolution between father and daughter that provides the emotional backbone to the film, and through which tensions play out over their new-found freedoms in Europe -- something her father struggles to adjust to.
Isra'a, who by the end of the film is a married mother living in Germany, said watching her life on film in the Park City theatre was "beautiful."
And having documentarists follow her every step of the way as she grew had its upsides.
"I felt like this was something very special," she told the audience after the screening. "My friends thought I was famous; it made making friends easier and faster."
