Elsa Klensch, who was among the first to bring fashion to TV screens with CNN's 'Style with Elsa Klensch' in the 1980s, has died at 92 in New York City, CNN has confirmed.
Elsa Klensch, who was among the first to bring fashion to TV screens with CNN's"Style with Elsa Klensch" in the 1980s, has died at 92 in New York City, CNN has confirmed.
"There is nothing as exciting as a good collection. I can go in like many other fashion editors -- tired, depressed, fed up," Klensch said on her show in 2000."Once those good clothes come down the runway, the whole world changes." She joined the Cable News Network in 1980, hosting and producing"Style with Else Klensch" until 2001. Klensch's weekly reports covering the global fashion industry, in which she brought designers in front of the camera, developed a devoted following and made her show one of the network's most watched in the 1980s.
When Klensch arrived at fashion shows everyone was aware, said Walter Imparato, her photojournalist for over a decade. Many designers came to expect her backstage to interview them about their work.