Edith Head

Bird: Well, we certainly looked at Edith Head, but there are actually a lot of female fashion designers, if you research it, that have giant glasses. But also, Patricia Highsmith was an influence. She wrote The Talented Mister Ripley. Linda Hunt. When you're designing a character, you're just saying, "Who is that?" We have drawings, and you can see them in The Art of [The Incredibles] book, where she's taller and fatter and older and younger. We tried a lot of stuff and we kept saying no, no, more like this, but I like the nose on this one, and maybe the pageboy cut, maybe glasses should be bigger. And you end up with something that reminds you of Edith Head and you of Linda Hunt.