The flashy girl from Flushing — the nanny named Fran — is being named Gen Z’s most haute heroine. It’s The Nanny-core couture, baby! “She unapologetically extra, glamorous and sexy,” Charissa Mattera, 26, from Bay Ridge, told The Post of Fran Drescher’s role as the irrepressibly fabulous Fran Fine in the 1990s sitcom “The Nanny.” A fashion plate with chichi taste, the fictional Ms.
Fine stole the spotlight of nearly every scene in luxe, look-at-me finery since the show debuted in 1993. Her colorful ‘fits and skimpy miniskirts often disrupted the beige blandness of the Upper East Side Sheffield residence, where she worked and wowed as a live-in sitter for a rich Broadway producer and his three kids. And now, almost 30 years since the series ended in 1999, twenty-somethings, including A-listers like Sabrina Carpenter (who was born in ‘99), are reviving her saucy vibe with the Fran Fine fashion fad.
It’s the perfect blend between “stealth wealth” chicness and “mob wives” gangster glam . “She’s a New York City girl who’s not afraid to dress boldly,” said Mattera, a virtual tastemaker , praising Fine for inspiring her eponymous trend. “Now that the clean-girl and sporty aesthetics have passed, we’re itching for a classic and fun way to express ourselves through fashion.
” And who better to emulate than the lady in red — or animal print, or houndstooths or sequins — when everybody else is wearing tan? Drescher counts Gen Z’s adulat.
