Brood's Converging Ideas - NYTimes.com February 16, 2012, 2:37 pm Brood, a new label started by Serkan Sarier in 2010, showed his fourth collection within the confines of Fashion Week this season, rather than waiting until everyone's back from Paris, as he has in the past. He was ready for the challenge. Mr. Sarier, a former assistant to designers like Emanuel Ungaro and Olivier Theyskens, favors a look that combines elements from couture and sport, meaning his evening dresses and jackets, sold at Barneys New York, are usually trimmed with a lot of hardware, drawstrings and zippers so they can be put together and worn in several different ways. For his show today, he added a lot: prints, which looked like repeating squares of cobalt marble; shadowed florals on diaphanous dresses, and a group of multilayered pieces made of gold-bonded knits. A halter dress had a skirt of soft pleats and zippers across the chest, while a jacket had drawstrings at the waist that, when drawn, gathered the fabric in a way that created a sort of natural peplum. Mr. Sarier said that he had been looking at the work of two artists, the sculptor Lynn Chadwick and the more contemporary paintings of Glenn Brown. Their styles are vastly different. "I tried to make a collection that merged these opposites into one idea," he said.