Elsa Klensch is the former producer and host of "Style with Elsa Klensch",
CNN's groundbreaking fashion and design program. Elsa Klensch "created the gold
standard for television fashion journalism", according to a New Yorker
profile. The show aired from 1980 to 2000. "Style with Elsa Klensch"
videotapes are part of the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume
Institute.
Elsa's straightforward reporting and her reputation for integrity won her
millions of viewers around the world. She is an opinion-maker in the worlds of
fashion and design: her activities are reported on by USA Today, People,
Women's Wear Daily, The New York Times and "Page Six".
In an article entitled Changing Careers", Elsa Klensch writes about the
difficulties in changing careers and states: "Career changes are frightening,
but exciting".
And now, Elsa says, "After 20 years at CNN, I felt it was time to move on. I
had always read mysteries and I decided to try my hand at writing a mystery
novel.
Her series of mysteries starring television fashion journalist Sonya Iverson
begins with "Live at 10:00, Dead at 10:15". The charming Sonya Iverson is seen
as an ambitious producer for a TV news magazine in the second in the series
"Shooting Script". "Sonya doesn't realize that her interviews are bringing her
closer and closer to the murderer. Close enough to become the next fashion
victim...". According to Donna Karan, "No one communicates with more style or
more authority than Elsa Klensch." And Calvin Kline, "Only Elsa could fasion
such a lively, murderous tale."
Elsa received a four-book contract, so we can expect two more equally exciting
mysteries. "After reading "Live at 10:00, Dead at 10:15", I know that Elsa
Klensch will have as long and successful career as a writer as she did as a
pioneering journalist for CNN. Elsa proved that television coverage of fashion
could be successful Now she proves that she is as good at writing fiction as
she is in front of the camera." Oscar de la Renta.
Elsa Klensch's first book "Style", a heavily illustrated compendium of fashion
tips and tricks, was a New York Times bestseller.
In addition to being the producer and host of CNN's "Style with Elsa Klensch",
Elsa Klensch has anchored Spring and Fall fashion show coverage for the cable
channel Trio and has written articles for "House Beautiful", Elle Decor", and
other magazine and newspapers and writes amonthly column on jewelry for gem.net.
She has lectured about fashion and design at the Costume Institute of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Chicago Historical Society, the Los Angeles
County Museum of Art, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, and elsewhere.
Among the many awards Klensch has received are the Woman of Achievement Award
from the Anti-Defamation League and an Order of Merit from the Italian
government. She has been elected to the International Best-Dressed List Hall
of Fame.
