Elsa Klensch

Elsa Klensch (née Aeschbacher; 21 February 1930 – 4 March 2022) was an Australian-American journalist, novelist, and television personality, often working in the world of fashion.

She was the producer and host of Style with Elsa Klensch, CNN's weekly fashion and design television program, which ran from 1980 to 2001. Klensch was born on 21 February 1930 in Cooranbong, in the Lake Macquarie District of New South Wales, to Johann Ernst and Mary Margaret (née Miles) Aeschbacher. She 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. They were married in 1966 in wartime Saigon and then settled in New York City.Klensch worked at the Sydney Telegraph, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and the Public Information Office of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea. She 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. She hosted and produced Style with Elsa Klensch, which ran from 1980 to 2000 on CNN. After leaving CNN she wrote a series of mystery novels about a television news producer who is caught up in a murder investigation.