Elsa Klensch

Elsa Klensch (born 21 February 1933) is an Australian-American journalist and novelist, 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. She married Chuck Klensch in 1966.

Elsa Klensch is an Australian-American journalist, author and television personality. She was born on 21 February 1933 in Cooranbong, in the Lake Macquarie District of New South Wales, to Johann Ernst and Mary Margaret (née Miles) Aeschbacher.

She is married to Charles Klensch, whom she met in Hong Kong while he was on leave from his post as Saigon news bureau manager for the American Broadcasting Company. They were married in 1966 in wartime Saigon and then settled in New York.

She has 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, The New York Post and WCBS-TV.

She hosted and produced Style with Elsa Klensch, which ran from 1980 to 2000 on CNN. She has also authored four mystery novels.

Elsa began her career in 1958, at the Sydney Daily Telegraph while studying journalism at Sydney University. With the byline Elsa Barker (she adopted Barker as her professional name because Aeschbacher, was difficult for people to pronounce, spell, or remember.) She also reported for the London Star and the London Sunday Express. By 1961 she decided to return to Sydney and for the home journey accepted the position of press officer for the S/S Canberra's maiden voyage with Pacific ports of call.

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