Fashion will take flight at “Legacy Wright Flight ” a runway fashion show to benefit Wright Flight at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 29, in an airplane hangar at the Atlantic Aviation Center at Tucson International Airport, 1921 E. Flightline Drive.
“It will be a runway near the runway at sunset ant it will be an extravagant event,” said Samantha Lambert, director and owner of Legacy for Tucson, which stages fashion/special events to benefit local nonprofits.
The Top Gun/Aviation-themed runway show will feature local design icons such as Pop Triggered, House of Zuhri and El Be Goods Boutique. The event will also feature live performances by Az the World Burns, Nicky Douglas and Freddie Walker; an interpretive dance performance by University of Arizona Professor of Dance Marquez Johnson; food trucks and much more.
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Lambert, who staged a fashion fundraiser last year for Emerge Center Against Domestic Abuse, hopes to make a transformative difference in the community by supporting local nonprofits in memory of Margarita Munsen and Garrett Ronstadt. Lambert was inspired to support Wright Flight after learning that the nonprofit partners with schools — many of whom are underprivileged and/or low-income — to help students set and achieve goals to earn the right to fly airplanes.
“I went out on a ‘Fly Day’ and watched kids land planes. It is just incredible,” Lambert said. “It changes their lives. I have spoken to adults who went through the program when they were children and they say they don’t know where they would be if not for Wright Flight. I have seen the impact it has on people’s lives and that is where my heart is.”
With the help of supporters such as A-Team Mortgage, her co-director Leah Schwersinske and photographer Adelyn Baber, Lambert hopes to raise at least $10,000 to benefit the program.
Tickets for the event begin at $55 per person. Go to http://tucne.ws/1oaj for more information.
