special award in 1986 and their 1998-99 Eugenia Sheppard Award for journalism. Anti-Defamation League's 1995 Woman of Achievement Award. Fashion Group International 1966 Superstar Award. Order of Merit (Ordine al Merito) from the Italian government in 1988 for “distinguished reporting on Italian design, craftsmanship and style.” Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the International Fine Arts College in Miami in 1990, which cited her “outstanding contribution to the international fashion and design community and her continuing inspiration for students of fashion and interior design.” Elected to the International Best Dressed Hall of Fame List in 1990. Commencement address at New York's Fashion Institute of Technology (Class of 2001). Distinguished Achievement Award of the Laboratory Institute of Merchandising, New York City (2005). Election to Fashion Media Hall of Fame at Kent State University. She served on the Kent State University Fashion Department Advisory Board. New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art acquired the CNN archive of a thousand weeks of Style with Elsa Klensch for its Costume Institute. Member and former vice president of the Fashion Group International. Member of The Authors Guild, the Society of Authors (UK), Mystery Writers of America, and Sisters in Crime. Death Klensch died at her home in Manhattan, New York City on 4 March 2022, at the age of 92. Notes External links Internationally renowned fashion journalist (Retrieved 24 March 2008) New Yorker Magazine article 20 September 1999 1930 births 2022 deaths Australian crime writers Australian emigrants to the United States Australian fashion journalists Australian mystery writers Australian television personalities Australian women journalists Australian women novelists CNN people Women mystery writers Women television personalities Writers from New South Wales