Melrose Bickerstaff

In February 2007, Bickerstaff was a featured model in Malan Breton's ready-to-wear show during New York Fashion Week. Her working relationship with Breton continued when she appeared with him one month later at the GLAAD Media Awards. In April 2007, she also appeared in New York's Tartan Week with Ivanka Trump and Marcus Schenkenberg.

Previously signed to Bleu Model Management and L.A. Models, she signed with Storm Model Management in late 2007, the same agency which manages models Cindy Crawford, Kate Moss, and Alek Wek.

Bickerstaff has also done advertisements for Scoop NYC, Jack Rabbit Belts, and the Beau Soleil Fall 2007 Collection, and walked the runways at London Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2008 for designer Aminika Wilmot.

She graduated from The Art Institute of California - San Francisco with a degree in fashion design. In 2003, she was named "Best of Show" and "Most Creative" in the school's annual student fashion show. Before appearing on America's Next Top Model, she worked as a fashion designer.

Melissa Rose Bickerstaff (born February 6, 1983), known professionally as Melrose, is an American fashion model and fashion designer based in San Francisco, California, and signed to Leni's Model Management. She first came to prominence in 2006, as the runner-up on the seventh edition of America's Next Top Model.

Bickerstaff was born in 1983. She grew up in the city of Orchard Lake, Michigan, graduating from West Bloomfield High School in 2001. At West Bloomfield, she was active in theater and was a member of the ski team. She also participated in the school's fashion program.