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Gloria Fung

Influencer, singer and model Natalie Lim Suarez is no stranger to the camera. She has been working the angles since she was 15 years old, travelling the world as a model. With a keen eye for photography and styling, she’s been able to boost her online popularity with the curated fashion editorials she shares with more than one million Instagram followers.
She has a Chinese mother and Spanish-Mexican father, and is a self-described multi-hyphenated creative. She takes to her fashion blog Natalie Off Duty to share her “model off duty” lifestyle.
The Lim Suarez art of influencing

Lim Suarez takes her unique eye for fashion styling and photography to a wide audience through her blog, TikTok and Instagram, where she has more than a million followers. With her sister Dylana, also a fashion influencer, they developed a unique visual take on fashion blogging. Lim Suarez credits their penchant for photography to a childhood that saw the two surrounded by art. “The arts have been in my life ever since I was little. I was always singing, dancing, and performing,” she shared in an interview for fashion brand Dora Larsen’s blog.
Training from a young age in those performance arts, Lim Suarez first discovered her fashion fascination on stage. “Our costumes on stage were definitely my first fashion moments,” she has admitted to fashion brand Aje.
The sisters taught themselves photography after their father gave them a camera. From there, their love of beautiful and expressive imagery took off. “Style and fashion is something that just came naturally to me. I love the art of photography,” Natalie has blogged. “I like creating a mood through my photos that feel like an editorial and tell a story with a single image.”

The Lim Suarez sisters have appeared in advertising campaigns together, the most recent being a series of social media posts for renowned Italian restaurant Carbone in New York. The two also launched the Natalie Dylana Eau de Parfum fragrance in 2019. To perfume platform Scent Beauty, Natalie described the fruity, earthy unisex scent as happy and invigorating.
Since starting her blog in 2009 and increasing her social media presence, she has been collaborating with fashion brands including Coach and Gap. In 2022, she landed on Hola magazine’s Top 100 Latina Powerhouses list and continues to be an influential fashion voice in that community.
She’s a fashion darling

Her social media presence has landed her invitations to some of the most exclusive fashion shows and events in the past few years. She recently attended a Dolce & Gabbana presentation in an all-black, cropped blazer ensemble.
At a Carolina Herrera bash, Lim Suarez partied the night away wearing the designer’s black and pink polka dot halter dress.

Her passion for fashion also led her to design an exclusive capsule collection with Macy’s in 2018. The Inspr-d by Natalie Off Duty range featured dresses and separates created with the model’s personal style as a blueprint. With all pieces costing less than US$130 each, the collection was touted as an affordable choice for her fans, who loved her soft, romantic style but didn’t necessarily have the budget for luxurious designer items.
She’s also a songstress


Her interest in fashion aside, Lim Suarez is also a committed musician. And it’s music, rather than fashion, that she credits with shaping her personality: “Music for an instant mood lifter because I love to blast something and just dance in my living room,” as she has told her followers.
The influencer shares her music at pop-up events and on YouTube, where she sings and plays the guitar, covering songs such as “Crazy” by Gnarls Barkley and “Bang Bang” by Nancy Sinatra.


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Natalie Lim Suarez, applying a fresh perspective to fashion styling and photography for a broad social media audience. Photo: @natalieoffduty/Instagram 

Natalie Lim Suarez posts about her lifestyle on fashion blog Natalie Off Duty. Photo: @natalieoffduty/Instagram

The Lim Suarez sisters, Dylana (left) and Natalie, say they were surrounded by art from an early age. Photo: @dylanasuarez/Instagram

Natalie Lim Suarez at the Dolce & Gabbana Beauty launch party in New York last April. Photo: @natalieoffduty/Instagram

Natalie Lim Suarez attends an event hosted by designer Carolina Herrera. Photo: @natalieoffduty/Instagram

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Being surrounded by the arts from childhood has helped New York-based influencer Suarez build a résumé that includes modelling, photography, writing, design, music and more


Being surrounded by the arts from childhood has helped New York-based influencer Suarez build a résumé that includes modelling, photography, writing, design, music and more.


Meet Natalie Lim Suarez, the part-Chinese, part-Spanish-Mexican influencer, model and singer who has a unique take on fashion blogging and on life through the lens

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