Mise-en-scène tells as much of an episode’s themes through the seams of Fran’s fluorescent Todd Oldham suits as a well-timed joke about Andrew Lloyd Weber. “It has helped them get through difficult times when they didn't know who they were.”Īlbeit the crux of the show and titular character, the show’s wardrobe was often written off by the production team as superfluous spending initially. “The character of Fran Fine.the way she dressed, which was self-expressed, and she lived out loud, has helped in their lives,” Cooper explains. Naturally, viewers came for Fran Fine’s eccentric personality and hilarious antics, but it was her bold, completely unapologetic outfits that really sold her character. The show’s fashion might as well have been billed as a main character - after all, it was The Nanny’s only Emmy win. Otherwise, I might not be a stylist today.”ĭuring the show’s heyday, almost immediately, Cooper’s designs were revered by the public, and she was thrust in front of the press. The show later launched in November 1993, with Cooper on board “I'm very confident about my ability and my skill to make a woman look and feel fabulous,” says Cooper. She didn’t think anything of it until a year later, when she got the call: Drescher had just sold The Nanny to CBS. Drescher told her if she ever got her own show, Cooper would be the one dressing her to the nines. Cooper recalls Drescher was essentially manifesting her own future at the time. Giulio Marcocchi/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty ImagesĮventually, Cooper met Fran Drescher working on the short-lived show Princesses, and the connection was instant. Her client introduced her to a costume design agent, and a few days later, Cooper “had a job.” “Three years later, I was walking up on stage to get an Emmy for The Nanny.” I just loved fashion and I loved dressing people,” Cooper says. “I didn't even really know it was a talent. Eventually, one of her first clients recognized her knack for styling. Even then, that was mainly “to pay rent,” she tells Elite Daily. Her love of fashion steadfast, she worked under a number of other designers starting out, but she didn’t pursue costuming or her own fashion consulting business until she was in her 30s. Although, to be fair, they’d make a damn good outfit today, in Cooper’s opinion. for Katharine Hepburn’s pleated pants, smart vests, and shoulder pads - all requisites for many of The Nanny’s costumes. Growing up, she became entranced with 1940s movies, and, as one often does when it comes to love, she fell hard. Precariously balanced on her chair, Cooper shows me over FaceTime how she used to take something as inconspicuous as terry towels and intuitively transform them into chic swimsuits and halter-tops. Styling was instinctual to Cooper from a young age, though she may not have realized it at the time. And it’s largely Cooper’s approach to fashion and styling that has allowed the show’s wardrobe undying appreciation from fashion lovers even now, as The Nanny landed on HBO Max in April and its costumes experience new life and admiration across social media.
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Through a fervent commitment to styling few other people have, Emmy-award winning stylist Brenda Cooper, the mastermind behind the TV show’s most iconic looks, singlehandedly disrupted the fashion world and empowered people to tailor-make their own version of The Nanny’s style and flair. It’s undeniable Fran’s fearless ‘fits on The Nanny delivered style lesson after style lesson, influencing even recent fashion trends in an enormous way. Like it or not, we were - and still are - one nation under Fran Fine, fashionable and with miniskirts and big hair for all.
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