Elsa Klensch was an Australian and American journalist, novelist, and television personality, often working in the world of fashion.
17 Facts About Elsa Klensch
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Elsa Klensch was the producer and host of Style with Elsa Klensch, CNN's weekly fashion and design television program, which ran from 1980 to 2001.
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Elsa Klensch was married to Charles Klensch, whom she met in Hong Kong while he was on leave from his post as Saigon, South Vietnam, news bureau manager for the American Broadcasting Company.
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Elsa Klensch worked at the Sydney Telegraph, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and the Public Information Office of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea.
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Elsa Klensch edited the Hong Kong Trade Bulletin, Women's Wear Daily, and was senior fashion editor at Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, New York Post, and for WCBS-TV.
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Elsa Klensch hosted and produced Style with Elsa Klensch, which ran from 1980 to 2000 on CNN.
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Elsa Klensch began her career in 1958 at the Sydney Daily Telegraph while studying journalism at Sydney University.
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Elsa Klensch appeared on WCBS, and in a coup, persuaded Yves Saint Laurent to appear with her as a personal favor.
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Style with Elsa Klensch reached 2.5 million households in the United States each week, becoming CNN's highest-rated weekend feature-news program at its time.
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Elsa Klensch created Style as a journalistic reflection of her own fashion and design sense.
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Elsa Klensch's name became an international byword among fashion and design professionals.
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Elsa Klensch covered fashion and design from Bali, Beijing, Havana, Madrid, Manila, Moscow, Rio de Janeiro, and Sydney.
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Elsa Klensch created a monthly jewelry column for the Internet magazine Gem.
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In June 2002, Forge Books, a division of the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, signed Elsa Klensch to write a series of four mystery novels featuring television news producer Sonya Iverson as amateur sleuth.
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Elsa Klensch became a regular lecturer on fashion and design for professional organizations as well as costume departments of art museums in Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, San Diego, and Toledo, Ohio, and at Auburn University and the Savannah College of Art and Design.
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Elsa Klensch served on the Kent State University Fashion Department Advisory Board.
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Elsa Klensch died at her home in Manhattan, New York City on 4 March 2022, at the age of 92.