The model Kiko Mizuhara on karaoke bars, the gay clubs and her of Passion for travel

Kiki mizuhar source: cnn style

A rainbow-sequined "LOVE WINS" peak, circus pants, shutter of Shades and a disco ball are all 26-year-old the model Kiko Mizuhara needs to channel one of her favorite comfort: finding a gay clubs in every city she travels to.

"It's safe. Nobody would care about me, no guys will come up to you, and you may just do whatever you care," she says, vogueing to camera on a shoot by CNN Style.

keep away attention may Become Increasingly hard. Mizuhara's star power as a the model and actress in Asia is by now cemented (she starred in the movie adaption of living Haruki Murakami's "Norwegian Wood" and the Japanese action movie "Attack on Titan"), and she's conformable an Increasingly familiar face internationally.

In the recent years, she's walked the air strip for Jeremy Scott, been photographed by Karl Lagerfeld, and graced the pages of the world's top fashion of magazines.

"Because the Chinese a market is really huge, being an Asian the model is better now than before," she says. "A lot of the People know I'm well leading in China, so they book me because of that."

Beijing the photographer Zack Zhang, who regularly works with Mizuhara on the campaign shoots and editorials for Elle and the Cosmopolitan China China, describes her as "a girl on fire."

"Kiko has her independent style. Not everyone would appreciate her beauty, but she find out how to show her strength in front of the camera."

but mizuhara have not always been so confident. The Growing up in Kobe, in the Japanese countryside, she frequently struggled with her mixed-race the identity. (Her father is from Texas, and her of Mother is a Japanese woman of Korean decent.) source: CNN