Alisa Bellettini

Alisa Bellettini

Date of Birth: October 01, 1954
Date of Passing: February 16, 2016
Birthplace: Napa, California
Obituary: The New York Times

Alisa Bellettini was a producer best known for creating the popular MTV series House of Style. The program debuted in 1989 and followed fashion, the modeling industry and music, and came during the rise of the “supermodel.”

The show ran for 11 years and featured a variety of hosts, mostly models themselves, including Cindy Crawford, Rebecca Romijn, Amber Valletta and Molly Sims. Following Crawford’s six-year run as host, the series was cut down to a yearly special, until it was canceled in 2000. It was revived for one episode in 2009, with Bar Rafaeli as host and model Chanel Iman as a correspondent. It has also aired as a web series, with revivals in 2012 and 2014.

Bellettini also served as a segment producer on the TV special Fox/MTV Guide to Summer ’92 and she appeared in the 2012 special House of Style: Music, Models and MTV.

Alisa Bellettini was a producer best known for creating the popular MTV series House of Style. The program debuted in 1989 and followed fashion, the modeling industry and music, and came during the rise of the “supermodel.”

The show ran for 11 years and featured a variety of hosts, mostly models themselves, including Cindy Crawford, Rebecca Romijn, Amber Valletta and Molly Sims. Following Crawford’s six-year run as host, the series was cut down to a yearly special, until it was canceled in 2000. It was revived for one episode in 2009, with Bar Rafaeli as host and model Chanel Iman as a correspondent. It has also aired as a web series, with revivals in 2012 and 2014.

Bellettini also served as a segment producer on the TV special Fox/MTV Guide to Summer ’92 and she appeared in the 2012 special House of Style: Music, Models and MTV.

She worked at a radio station and for Rolling Stone magazine before beginning work at MTV in the mid-1980s.

Bellettini died February 16, 2016, in Sacramento, California. She was 61.

 

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