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As it continues to diversify its business with in-house moves and M&a deals, UTA has launched a fashion division.

UTA Fashion, which will be led by fashion industry vet Anne Nelson, will focus on expanding client activities in the fashion and beauty sectors.

Nelson has held exec posts at Img, Elite Model Management and, more recently, CAA. She has served as a mentor to many models on the rise, helping to guide their career paths.

“Anne is one of the most respected fashion executives with deep and established relationships across the industry,” UTA Board member and Partner Blair Kohan and Partner Darnell Strom said in a joint statement. “She has a true passion for her clients and has been the architect behind many top career moments in the fashion world. For UTA, bringing her on board is a natural next step in the work we’ve been doing in this space,...

UTA is formally getting into the fashion business.

The agency has launched UTA Fashion, a new division that will be focused on expanding client interests in the fashion and beauty industries, and is headed by New York-based Anne Nelson.

She joins from CAA, where she served as an agent in the CAA Fashion division for a little over a year. Prior to that, Nelson had a stint as vp global business development at Ultimate Fighting Championship. She joined the Endeavor-owned fighting league after two decades at Endeavor-owned Img Fashion, during which time she served as a director of business development and as an agent who repped fashion designers and models.

Her career in fashion dates back to the mid-1980s when she started her career in Paris working as a model manager at the Marilyn Agency Paris. She segued to Elite Model Management with a role as a business development manager.

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She tells Entertainment Weekly magazine, "My boyfriend at the time was having issues with substance abuse, so I was having to deal with that and then having to come to work. I was late most of the time."

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