Fly girl Amelia Earhart was the inspiration for Skingraft‘s Spring 2010 collection — which the brand marched down the runway last night at the MOCA Geffen Contemporary.

Models donned classic flight caps with the brand’s structured leather jackets, vests and leather-fronted leggings. The 4-year-old downtown-based label is known for its leather pieces, and shined most brightly with its hide-heavy looks, i.e. a Victorian-inspired fitted jacket resembling armor and a studded cropped leather shell. Other stand-outs included a pair of wooly short-shorts and a cool pants jumpsuit — both bearing enormous, basket-style pleated side pockets.

But strangely, by harnessing wartime 1930s style, some of the structured twill pieces that sailed down the runway — i.e. military gray ederhosen-ish pants — also felt very Raiders of the Lost Ark. Too costume-y. And the tailoring, though pristine on the leather pieces, fell a bit short on some of the fabric-only pieces.

No matter. As the runway show progressed, the clothes fell smartly back into Skingraft’s goth-lite comfort zone, climaxing with a series of gowns composed of tiered leather ruffled ball-skirts and complicated bodices help up by what we’re pretty sure were taxidermied birds.

All in all? Good, P.C.-free fun.

Second Skin: A Style Section L.A. profile on Skingraft.