She is half Japanese and half French
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Mika Schneider was born to a French father and a Japanese mother.
She has been travelling since she was two
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Born in Paris, Schneider left the French city when she was two years old and has lived all around the world including Moscow, Russia and Chennai, India. She moves frequently between France and Japan, her parents’ native countries.
She is a polyglot
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Schneider is fluent in French, Japanese and English and speaks some Russian and German. Given that the young model comes from a multi-cultural family and is a frequent traveller, this comes as no surprise.
She was scouted on Instagram by Elite
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After Schneider walked her first show in India, her mother, who modelled before, took some photos of her and sent them to some Japanese agencies. Among them was Bon Image, a model and artist agency based in Tokyo, which became Schneider’s mother agency. While running an Instagram account with her mother, she was then scouted by the French division of Elite Model Management on the social media platform.
Apart from Bon Image and Elite, Schneider is also signed with the US division of The Society Management.
She walked the most runway shows in SS22
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Since her international runway debut on Prada’s SS20 stage, Schneider has gone on to walk for the likes of Chanel, Dior, Saint Laurent, Louis Vuitton, Tom Ford and more. She became the model to walk the most runway shows for Spring/Summer 2022.
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