It’s been five months since we wrote about the multimillion-dollar modeling agency wars in Dallas (“Grab That Blonde,” September 1985), but apparently time has not healed the bitter division between the runway powers. Since then, we’ve learned that the Tanya Blair Agency has recaptured top Dallas model Clarke Hanson from the Kim Dawson Agency. “How wonderful,” says the tall, refined Blair.
Hanson, a $100,000-a-year-plus wage earner who has long been billed as Dallas’ numero uno model, went to work for the Blair agency in October 1982, threatening to knock the 20-year-old Dawson dynasty for a loop. Then, in mid-1985, she expressed concern that she wasn’t being promoted heavily enough and decided to switch over to the Dawson agency. Hanson now says she left Blair because of extremely tense working conditions caused by booking agents who have since left Blair to work for Industry Dallas, Angus Wynne’s new agency.
“I kept thinking it was me,” she says. “Once 1 realized that the tension was removed, I de-cided to come back. I’m refreshed.”
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