‘Incredibles’ Edna Mode is based on these fashion mavens
(New York Post Movies)

Director and screenwriter Brad Bird always took issue with one comic-book trope. Were we really to believe that Peter Parker was bent over a sewing machine, whipping up his Spidey suit? So for `The Incredibles,` his 2004 Pixar flick, he found a far more plausible situation: Bird´s superheroes turned to a costume designer who made...