Dutch artist M. C. Escher’s optical illusions merged art, science and mathematics. By manipulating perspective, playing with mathematical patterns and biological evolutions, Escher’s work defies a visual narrative, fooling the eye with multiple perspectives that has been described as impossible structures. For his FW 2009 collection, Alexander McQueen referenced M.C. Escher’s work along with that of Christian Dior, two artists working in the same period yet in different mediums. McQueen looked to Dior’s signature houndstooth checks in silhouettes evoking the New Look with midi hemlines and nipped waists, morphing the houndstooth checks into birds with expansive wings in an Escher like-manner.