“No, I am not loopy; you’re consuming my face!” Any diehard popular culture and actuality TV fan doubtless acknowledges that quote from season 4 of Dance Mothers—a scene during which a heated altercation ensues between Abby Lee Miller and [Dance Mom] Kelly Hyland. However solely an equal components actuality TV aficionado and vogue obsessive would go as far as to establish Kelly’s ensemble: a long-sleeved Missoni spring 2013 gown within the model’s signature zig-zag weaved sample. Or, take the now-iconic Actual Housewives of Atlanta season 6 reunion, the place Nene Leakes churns out notorious one-liners, like “This ain’t Porsha,” “Allow them to know Greg, honk the horn,” and “So nasty and so impolite.” Who ID’d Nene’s velvet Marc Bouwer gown? The individual in query is Nathan Capistrano, whose X account Muglerize is devoted to such very particular vogue credit.

By Muglerize, Capistrano is amongst a brand new vanguard of vogue voices—a various group of writers, creators, and personalities using social media to precise their area of interest vogue viewpoints. “I like how there are extra folks around the globe in numerous sorts of locations and upbringings which have a voice within the business,” he tells Vogue. “Because of social media, [fashion] is such a large and ever-expanding dialog, and that is what I like; we will all share our love and keenness for the artwork kind.” From breaking down seems to be seen in viral memes and gifs to dissecting iconic music movies and actuality TV scenes, the 22-year-old is churning out a few of the most progressive vogue content material—all from the consolation of his household dwelling in Manila, Philippines.

Whereas the idea of ID’ing seems to be from viral popular culture moments is probably not completely groundbreaking, Capistrano’s particular strategy makes it a style all its personal. His posts—which common greater than 2,000 likes every—straddle the road between intellectual and lowbrow; the intersectionality of unique excessive vogue and “responsible pleasure” programming. Archival vogue imagery—when posted alongside a clip of Kim Zolciak singing “Tardy For the Social gathering” in Louis Vuitton or a TikTok of web sensation Sabrina Brier sporting Amanda Uprichard—turns into far less difficult to digest.

This endeavor, Capistrano says, all began from watching YouTube. “Right here within the Philippines, we do not have Actual Housewives of Atlanta or any Actual Housewives, so I used to be uncovered to it due to YouTube,” he says, citing channel Thethrowbackqueen as sparking his curiosity. “I used to be all the time obsessive about watching these tidbits, however on the similar time, I used to be so targeted on what folks and what the housewives had been sporting throughout these scenes.” This led Capistrano to start out sharing his archiving expertise with the web. As we speak, he is amassed 30K followers.