and international trade fairs. That same year, she retired from her Hong Kong assignments in order to marry Charles Klensch in Saigon and move to New York where, from 1966-72, she reported for Fairchild Publications. Her last assignment there was as a senior market editor at Women's Wear Daily. In 1973, she moved to Vogue as a senior fashion editor and writer. In March 1976, she became the senior fashion editor at Harper's Bazaar, and then served as fashion editor of The New York Post. Her first television assignment was in 1978, when she reported for WPIX in New York City. During the 1978 New York City newspaper strike, local TV stations brought in newspaper columnists to give reports that would not be appearing in print. She appeared on WCBS, and in a coup, persuaded Yves Saint Laurent (who hated being on TV and usually refused requests) to appear with her as a personal favor. From April 1980 through January 2000, Elsa was host and producer of CNN's Style With Elsa Klensch. Years at CNN: Style With Elsa Klensch In April 1980, Klensch joined Cable News Network (CNN) and appeared on-air from its first week in June 1980 with her groundbreaking Style with Elsa Klensch. For more than twenty years, she produced and hosted the program, which was broadcast globally in 142 countries on both CNN and its 24/7 Headline News channel (Headline News Network). Her half hour, Style with Elsa Klensch was scheduled three times each weekend, and individually produced segments from the program were broadcast up to four times each weekday. Style with Elsa Klensch reached 2.5 million households in the United States each week, becoming CNN's highest-rated weekend feature-news program at its time. She created Style as a journalistic reflection of her own fashion and design sense. Hers was the first regularly scheduled U.S. television program reporting exclusively on the worlds of fashion, beauty, and design. Its worldwide popularity established her as the preeminent TV fashion journalist. Her name became an international byword among fashion and design professionals. Klensch set the pace for television coverage of fashion. "I always believed that television was a natural outlet for visually exciting design, but in the first days, when I arrived with my crew to cover a show, designers resisted setting aside a place for our camera. All that changed when Style proved how powerful television could be as an