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!

The last time you really thought about Men in Black, you also had Nelly and the series premiere of The Bachelor on the brain. But in May, after a decade-long, er, sabbatical, the alien ass-kickers are back — this time with a plot that involves time travel to Don Draper’s world and Josh Brolin playing a 28-year-old K (that’s Tommy Lee Jones’s character, in case you’ve somehow forgotten). Here’s what an up-and-coming secret agent should wear to really sell that threequel.

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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 tracked Coachella’s fashion foibles, and paid special attention to the shenanigans of one Lindsay Lohan. We were relieved to see Diane Kruger and Pacey Witter — fine, Josh Jackson — reunited, and kind of alarmed to see Chuck Bass sporting a onesie. We took a close look at Taylor Schilling, and her partner-in-Nicholas-Sparks, Zac Efron. We wondered what on earth Ashanti was wearing, and saluted the shower shoes of Cee Lo Green. Finally, we said goodbye — maybe forever! — to Ringer. We love you, Buffy!

Culture industry was a term coined by Theodor Adorno and Max Horkeimer, two brainy theorists with awesome surnames who waxed poetic about the failure of the Age of Enlightenment. Heady stuff, but their century-old theory about mass-produced culture and the media machine that makes it is relevant now more than ever.

Over the last decade individuality has — ironically — been standardized thanks to the likes of indie superstore, Urban Outfitters, H&M and (sorry Jenna Lyons) J. Crew. The fashion equivalent of the soap opera, retail giants are by definition formulaic, adhering to pre-existing templates that above all else, promote scalability and profitability.

With the modern mass culture factory growing at a mind-blowing rate, we thought we’d take a minute to look back at its antithesis: the avant-garde. Should consumerism ever go the way of the dodo, here’s a fun reminder of what our closets might look like if artistic originality not sales figures ruled the day. From the Godfather of vanguard fashion, Issey Miyake, to Björk’s partner in fashion crime, Hussein Chalayan, to the intentionally anonymous genius behind Maison Martin Margiela, click through to see how we think these eccentric and original designs measure up in terms of everyday wearability. Let us know in the comments which look you’d consider rocking any old day of the week.

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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 examined the burgeoning romance between Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, and gasped in horror when Melody Thornton went to an Elle party with her nipples on full display. We saluted the return of Hart of Dixie, and gave big love to Emily Blunt — particularly her hair. Speaking of hair, we noted that China Chow was wearing human hair. On an outfit. Not just on her head. We wondered if Rihanna knew she was wearing a Snuggie in public. We took a look at what a variety of Royal Families wore on Easter, and examined the new Wills and Kate exhibit at Madame Tussauds. We gave away a copy of Messy, our new follow-up to Spoiled, which hits shelves on June 5th. And finally, we gave a thumbs up to the many hotties in The Avengers. Even ScarJo in her Stealth-Bomber-had-a-baby-with-a-prom-dress dress.

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 crowned the winner of Fug Madness 2012 and celebrated with a moving and dramatic montage. We gave Taylor Swift some love, and wondered if LeAnn Rimes had been hiding in a cave for the last six months. We examined the new bra-top trend with some help from Selena Gomez and Katy Perry, and gave some serious thought to Emma Stone’s new hair. We put Kristen Stewart under the Fug Microscope, and, honestly, kind of rolled our eyes at poor Lily Collins. We wondered if Rihanna actually slept in these pajamas, or just wore them to parties, and worried about the state of Claire Danes’ wardrobe in general. So much to worry about. So much.

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!

April doesn’t typically deliver highly-anticipated new TV shows, but no one can shut up about Lena Dunham’s HBO series — and the premiere is still two weeks out! Frank Bruni is all abuzz on the sexual dynamics, Emily Nussbaum is obsessed with, well, everything, and even Flavorwire got in on the action at the show’s SXSW panel with executive producer Judd Apatow. Today we’re here to address what our soon-to-be girl Hannah should be wearing if she wants to look like an authentic post-B.A. Brooklynite. Click through to see what we’ve come up with, and let us know if you’ll be tuning in to the series premiere in the comments!

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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 gave reluctant props to Miley Cyrus, and really, really, really reluctant props to Kim Kardashian. We wondered what was happening to the women of The Killing, and felt concerned for Katie Holmes’ wardrobe. We had serious issues with Hilary Swank, and not just because her career is in the toilet. We went down with the Titanic again, and wondered if maybe Chloe Sevigny thought she herself was about to drown and thus gave no thought at all to her hair. We spotted yet another cape in the wild, and spotted… whatever this is on Ashley Tisdale. Kids today. And finally, Fug Madness reached the Final Four. Have you voted?

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, Fug Madness continued rolling right along — hopefully you’ve already voted in our brackets to determine the year’s worst-dressed celebrity! But there was more on tap than just bracketology. We also covered many, many, MANY premieres of The Hunger Games, checked in on Kate Middleton (she drank booze AND patted a cute dog), took a look at a variety of girls currently employed by ABC Family, cast a gimlet eye over the cast of Mad Men (thank god it’s back!), turned up our noses at Nicole Richie’s resort wear, and reveled in the season finale of Pretty Little Liars. Now it’s time for a nap!

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!

Who knows why exactly, but 2012 is the year of the Snow White film. (Remember when the same thing happened with Truman Capote?) Snow White and the Huntsman, the dark, broody take starring Charlize Theron, Kristen Stewart, and Viggo Mortensen hits in June, but Brett Ratner and Ryan Kavanaugh are beating them to the punch with a hyper-glossy, much more family-friendly looking version called Mirror Mirror that opens March 30th. The hooks: a quippy queen (Julia Roberts) and some up-and-comer magic — Lily Collins of The Blind Side takes the lead with Armie Hammer (a.k.a. those Winklevii) as the princely love interest. Here’s what we hope the story’s namesake is wearing as she befriends those little men.

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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 kicked off the 4th Annual Fug Madness, in which we all pour over the worst celeb fashion of the last year to determine who looked the worst. Come on by and vote! When not arguing about whether Katy Perry looked worse than Kourtney Kardashian, for example, we also wondered what happened to Ashley Judd’s face, who was out to ruin Shailene Woodley, and why Susan Sarandon was making appearances in her underwear. We were concerned about Nicole Richie (and not just because Fashion Star looks so terrible), and decided that Elizabeth Banks was a total dish. We also got all up in the grill of the Hunger Games premiere, and worried that Miley Cyrus perhaps confused it with her belly-dancing class. She wouldn’t be the — actually, yes. She would be the first.