Who or what inspires your style? Many of us use celebrities (Nicole Richie or Emma Watson) as style inspiration even though, most of the time, they are being dressed from head to toe by the best stylists. Which we don’t have. And sometimes it’s damn near impossible to work their Hollywood looks into our not-so-Hollywood lives. I’ve made it my mission to tap into the mind of a fashion stylist and show you how to take your style inspiration – whatever it may be – and make it more you!

As you may have come to notice, I seem to have an affinity towards style icons that dress like they’re a little peeved about something. And Taylor Momsen is the queen of the peeve. While 17-year-old Jenny Humphrey on Gossip Girl has a few things to be angry about (namely, playing second fiddle to her perfect brother and bombshell step-sister), I’m not exactly sure what’s getting Taylor’s panties (when she wears them, that is) in a bunch. I mean, the girl works alongside some serious dime pieces like Penn Badgley, Chace Crawford and Ed Westwick, fronts her band Pretty Reckless, and models for Madonna’s upcoming fashion line called Material Girl.

But this girl is spicy, outspoken and seemingly angry, and it all comes through in the clothing (or lack thereof) that she dons. Taylor did a complete 180 and went from Upper East Side preppy with her compadre (and fellow style icon) Willa Holland to X-rated rebel. Gone are the girly dresses and frilly tops, replaced by ripped tights, heavy eyeliner and garter belts (?!). But while she’s still not legal, the way she rocks that wardrobe makes me realize that age ain’t nothing but a number.

I’m diggin Taylor’s style because it’s extreme.  Not to the point of Lady Gaga covered in fake blood, but it’s extreme to where you wonder, “What could she possibly wear next?”  It’s a little bit scandalous considering she’s still jailbait, but inspiring because she pairs it with an edgy attitude….and the mouth of a sailor. She doesn’t care what people think or say; she wears what she wants, when she wants. Some may judge her for it, but Taylor doesn’t care. And, quite frankly, I don’t care either. Taylor does rocker chic and she does it well.

And because we’re well past our barely-legal days, we can work her look without worrying about the judgment of others.

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I don’t know about you, but if I were Taylor Momsen and I was about to appear on TV (yes, even It’s On With Alexa Chung), I’d probably change out of my one-night-stand’s military button-down before I went on air. That is, if it were appropriate for my 16-year-old self to be putting out in the first place.

But not dear Taylor. Our favorite-turned-most-annoying Gossip Girl star showed up to the MTV studios looking like this. Naturally, I have many questions for this good-girl-gone-whore:

1. Did you honestly wake up, get dressed, look in the mirror and say “Yes. This looks good.”
2. How did you justify this look: It’s OK if your shirt doesn’t cover your vagina since your sunglasses/hair cover half of your face?
3. If Miley can’t dance on a stripper pole, do you think you can walk around Manhattan looking like you just had wild sex?  The walk of shame does not become you, Taylor.
4. What do you have against pants?
5. From where does your fashion inspiration come? Ashley Olsen-meets-Lady Gaga?
6. Good call covering your nips with that fur collar. It gets cold strutting around NY in the fall half naked. (Yeah, that was a statement and not a question, but that really was a good idea on her part.)
7. What look were you going for with this? Homeless girl sells pants in order to purchase a Starbucks coffee to warm her half-dressed body?
8. How much do you charge for a quickie?
9. Uh, aren’t you in middle school?
10. Seriously?