Editor’s note: Welcome to Dear Costume Department, a bi-weekly feature brought to you by our fashion-minded friends from Of a Kind, a curated shopping site of limited-edition goods by emerging designers. With each installment, they’ll bring you a head-to-toe look inspired by a buzzed-about pop culture personality — complete with info on where to grab the pieces for your own closet. Enjoy!

It’s hard not to get excited about a new Paul Rudd movie — even when the dude is playing opposite of Jennifer Aniston. In his latest — directed by David Wain (Wet Hot American Summer! Role Models!) and produced by Judd Apatow (every man-child comedy ever!) — Rudd’s character George trades life as a Manhattan power player for some time at a hippy-dippy commune that they thought was a B&B. Fingers crossed, laughs ensue. Here are our suggestions for what he should put on when he opts to wear clothes at all.

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Editor’s note: Welcome to The Fug Report! Each week our fashion blogger friends Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan, the sartorial geniuses behind Go Fug Yourself, will feature some of the most memorable looks of the week in this space. We hope you enjoy it!

This week on Go Fug Yourself, we took an in-depth look at the SAG Awards, examining the pleated jumpsuit of Rose Byrne (who apparently lost a bet to the Flying Elvises); giving unprecedented praise to Naya Rivera (who basically carried the banner for all the Glee actors); giving love to Melissa McCarthy (who looked the best she’s looked all awards season); and putting Glenn Close (who looked like a server at the Black Swan Saloon) and Ashlee Simpson (who was festooned in sparkly cobwebs) in a cage match. In non-awards season coverage, we celebrated Gossip Girl’s 100th episode, tuned in to the American figure skating championships, and witnessed perhaps the world’s most horrifying formal gown. Try and unsee that one.

Editor’s note: Welcome to The Fug Report! Each week our fashion blogger friends Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan, the sartorial geniuses behind Go Fug Yourself, will feature some of the most memorable looks of the week in this space. We hope you enjoy it!

This week on Go Fug Yourself, we decided that Kate Bosworth’s Sundance wardrobe was possibly meant to be a performance art piece called Stomp: The Death of Sebastian the Crab. We didn’t mind Cameron Diaz’s monochromatic sofa cushion dress at the haute couture shows in Paris. We checked in with Vanessa Paradis post-Johnny (she seems fine), and witnessed Katherine Heigl cage fight her former self. We started recapping Revenge, and returned to covering J Lo’s reign on American Idol. We crowned Best and Worst of the Golden Globes, and the results were somewhat surprising. Also surprising? That Marchesa is really trying to make this particular look happen. Not surprising at all: Elizabeth Olsen is super cute — unlike those often dour and depressed looking sisters of hers.

Headbands are one of those fashion accessories that, while they never seem to completely go out of style, have unexplained resurgences every few years. If the recent smattering on the red carpet at the Golden Globes is any indication, then we’re currently in the midst of one of those popularity surges. This is great news for Hillary Clinton, a longtime headband supporter, who was sporting a festive thin black headband at last night’s State of the Union address. She’s finally on-trend! Inspired by their recent takeover, we decided round up a collection of famous headband wearers throughout the years. Let us know who we missed in the comments!

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Editor’s note: Welcome to Dear Costume Department, a bi-weekly feature brought to you by our fashion-minded friends from Of a Kind, a curated shopping site of limited-edition goods by emerging designers. With each installment, they’ll bring you a head-to-toe look inspired by a buzzed-about pop culture personality — complete with info on where to grab the pieces for your own closet. Enjoy!

How many directors have staged modern productions of Shakespeare, would you guess? And how many have gone too far with the whole let’s-make-this-current! ethos (see: Peter Sellers’ Othello with Philip Seymour Hoffman)? Thankfully, Sam Mendes was able to contain himself with his take on Richard III, which opened at BAM this month, and that makes dressing an evil king (a.k.a. Kevin Spacey) legitimately fun.

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Editor’s note: Welcome to The Fug Report! Each week our fashion blogger friends Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan, the sartorial geniuses behind Go Fug Yourself, will feature some of the most memorable looks of the week in this space. We hope you enjoy it!

This week, on Go Fug Yourself, it was all Golden Globes, all the time. So much happened! Thomas Jane wore a crazy hat, as is his wont to do. Claire Danes looked awesome. Erin Wasson looked almost totally naked in a getup that made her look like a stripper who got in a knife fight in the hosiery section of Macy’s. Kelly Osbourne went grey, and a little green. Taissa Farmiga, on the other hand, could have used a little color. Giada wore a crazy pantsuit that she forgot to drop off at the tailors. Viola Davis looked smashing, and Will Arnett photobombed Amy Poehler. Emily Watson needed some styling help, and Lindsay Lohan… could have looked worse? Sure. A much-older-looking-than-she-really-is Cameron Diaz modeled her new boobs, and Salma Hayek showed off her usual ones. Octavia Spencer brought an unusual date, and Madonna brought back her fingerless gloves. Thank god we held onto ours all these years!

Editor’s note: Welcome to The Fug Report! Each week our fashion blogger friends Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan, the sartorial geniuses behind Go Fug Yourself, will feature some of the most memorable looks of the week in this space. We hope you enjoy it!

This week on Go Fug Yourself, we ramped up for awards season by covering the People’s Choice Awards at length, from Julianne Hough’s butt (which was sporting its own safety net) and the hot new couple of R Pattz and Betty White to the ongoing shenanigans of Miley Cyrus and the surprise reappearance Grace Johnson — aka the girl from Beaches who wasn’t Blossom. We decided that we want to relive our lives as Emma Stone, particularly Emma Stone in this perfect cream coat. We also worried about the carpet sample on Alec Baldwin’s head, fretted about denim harem pants on dudes, and admired Angelina Jolie’s almost Middletonian mane. Hey, credit where it’s due.

Editor’s note: Welcome to Dear Costume Department, a bi-weekly feature brought to you by our fashion-minded friends from Of a Kind, a curated shopping site of limited-edition goods by emerging designers. With each installment, they’ll bring you a head-to-toe look inspired by a buzzed-about pop culture personality — complete with info on where to grab the pieces for your own closet. Enjoy!

Though the news that Harry Potter was coming back to Broadway — this time with his pants on! — for a show that won seven Tonys back in 1961 was big, somehow it’s just as thrilling that he’s been replaced by Darren Criss, the guy who keeps us tuning into Glee even though the show has most definitely jumped the shark. Hopefully with the impossibly charismatic actor comes a spiffed-up look — god knows dude can do flamboyant without losing an ounce of that slicked-hair appeal of his.

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Editor’s note: Welcome to The Fug Report! Each week our fashion blogger friends Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan, the sartorial geniuses behind Go Fug Yourself, will feature some of the most memorable looks of the week in this space. We hope you enjoy it!

Over the past few weeks on Go Fug Yourself, we took a look back at the storied wardrobe of Britney Spears. We dug deep into the archives for endless pictures of Pacey Witter Joshua Jackson. We investigated The Year in Bieber. We worried that Erin Andrews is going to hurt herself if she keeps wearing pants this tight on the sidelines. We wondered why Vanessa Hudgens has such a complicated relationship with denim. We took issue with Tatler’s recent Kate Middleton cover — which reminded us of an amateur portrait of Jesus — and even more issue with what Cosmo did to poor Dakota Fanning. We admired Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig, albeit it separately, and over-analyzed why Lady Gaga rang in the year kissing Mayor Bloomberg. Is his girlfriend, Diana Taylor, going to have to kick her ass? If so, we hope someone takes pictures!

The idea of a celebrity inspiring a nail polish color is nothing that we haven’t seen before, but how about a 19th century literary icon doing the same thing? Well, that’s certainly more novel. The Dickensian Volume, a new collection from StrangeBeautiful, pays tribute to the work of Charles Dickens and the Brothers Grimm; heady stuff, but not all together surprising considering that Jane Schub, the RISD grad behind the indie nail polish line, has previously cited the Ettore Sottsass Red Valentine typewriter and Josef Albers color theory as among her inspirations. The colors, as you’d probably guess, are all dark and intense — a delightfully goth mix of matte and metallic variations on black. If you’re as eager to try them out as we are, grab a set for $85 at Treasure & Bond, a store which gives 100% of profits to charities benefiting children in NYC. [via The Moment]