Melanie Charlton Fascitelli
President and Creative Director
melanie@clos-ette.com

Melanie Charlton Fascitelli grew up in many places: Manhattan, Palm Beach, Denver, the Caribbean, even a ranch in Georgia. All that moving around led Melanie to understand the need for the right clothes-and to develop the know-how for finding them wherever she happened to be. As a hobby, Melanie began to dress her mother, her brothers and whoever else would let her. In fact, her style-conscious father, a fellow shopaholic, was the lone hold-out. Upon her return to New York to attend NYU, that hobby quickly turned into an infatuation.

While at NYU, Melanie worked for PR firm Paul Wilmot Communications, where she put her talents to work, consulting with designers and PWC's many luxury goods clients to organize showrooms. Later, as an editor for Channel magazine, she developed a keen editorial eye, covering fashion and accessories and writing both news and feature stories. At LuxuryFinder.com, which was later acquired by eLuxury, Melanie further honed her knowledge of the fashion industry, outfitting celebrity clients, writing articles and helping to conceive and develop the site. For Style.com, Melanie covered European and American fashion shows as well as parties and celebrities, and then went on to serve as a director of public relations at Anne Klein. After going out on her own, she mainly worked as a fashion stylist and then a freelance creative design director for retail and showroom spaces in New York City, Miami and Los Angeles.

Today, Melanie's distinct fashion sense and skills at working one-on-one to help others achieve their ideal style, whether in their wardrobes or their closets, have been channeled into Clos-ette. Melanie founded Clos-ette in the spring of 2002, and since has built out her New York City design offices, developed a line of Clos-ette products for the closet, created Palm Beach and LA branches of the company, and written the ultimate closet guide book, titled "Shop Your Closet: The Ultimate Guide to Organizing Your Closet With Style", due in stores April 8th, 2008. Melanie continues to grow Clos-ette through an upcoming line of customizable cabinetry, another book deal, other media deals and several multi-national development and retail deals for her product lines. Clos-ette is a reflection of Melanie's personal style and taste, both of which are reflected in the craftsmanship and attention to detail of everything Clos-ette produces.