The Fashion Club is a four piece group consisting of vacuous, popularity obsessed high school girls in the fictional Daria universe. Primarily based at Lawndale High School, the girls represent an elite force of teenagers who rank among the upper echelons of popularity, along with the stereotypical list of jocks, cheerleaders, and prepsters. The club hierarchy functions in a matter similar to The Plastics in the 2004 film, Mean Girls, and the eponymous girl group of the 1989 film Heathers. The club serves largely as a stage for competition between de facto President Sandi Griffin and Vice-President Quinn Morgendorffer, as the two attempt to garner attention and praise from their peers while struggling to exert their influence over the group. Within the series, the Fashion Club's purpose is primarily farcical, serving as a humorous sounding board for the darker and more realistic lives led by Daria and her cohorts.
colored velcroPresumably, the Fashion Club existed in a time previous to Quinn Morgendorffer's arrival to the suburb of Lawndale in episode #101, "Esteemsters." At the start of the Daria series, the Club was made up of the following members:
Sandi serves as the club's president and absolute dictator. The product of her mother Linda's controlling and dominating personality, Sandi has a knack for sniffing out weak individuals and then bullying them into submission. She, like her mother, speaks with a thick, snooty-sounding accent, and has mastered the art of faux politeness, delivering backhanded compliments to her peers and even her elders. Sandi manipulates others by assaulting their insecurities and then broadcasting their shortcomings in public. Her stranglehold over the Fashion Club is later challenged when Quinn moves to Lawndale, and she adopts an increasingly insulting and domineering attitude towards Quinn over time, though Quinn generally parries Sandi's comments and overlooks her malevolent leanings. Sandi was voiced by Janie Mertz, and is portrayed as the queen bee of the the group.
georgette topsStacy Rowe holds the position as club secretary, but she'd be more than willing to work under whatever title Sandi or anyone else assigns her, provided that she won't be called stupid or blamed for any accidents along the way. Insecure, shy, and overanalytical, Stacy's self-esteem is a battered mess. She rarely speaks up against anything Sandi suggests, though it's obvious she favors Quinn's opinion more than the others. A regular chameleon, Stacy is easily persuaded to follow the trends of the group, and suffers minor trauma when she thinks she's been deliberately shut out from the group's collective decisions and activities. In the movie "Is It Fall Yet?" she expresses anger and calls herself stupid when she isn't able to answer a history question. According to MTV's official Daria site, Stacy's feet are size 6 1/2 AA. Stacy was voiced by Sarah Drew, and functions as a worker bee.
As the Coordinating Officer, Tiffany's official job is to ensure than none of the club members' clothes ever clash with one another. Unofficially, Tiffany serves as the insincere "yes man" of the group, playing against either Sandi or Quinn, depending on who's winning at the time. However, she does little to contribute to the actual conversations at hand. Tiffany is much more content with staring vacantly through space or with primping herself in a mirror than she is with actually fueling the fire between either Sandi or Quinn. She is generally presented as the least intelligent and most vapid of the group, as she speaks slowly with a valley girl monotone to her voice, something Stacy mocks overtly in the episode "Fat Like Me". Tiffany is also the only Asian high school student included as a series regular. Tiffany was voiced (slowly) by Ashley Albert, and also functions as a worker bee.
Quinn makes an immediate impression on Sandi and Stacy within her first minute at LHS, and is asked to join the Fashion Club on her first day at school. She takes her role as vice president very seriously, and is often the first one to come up with new activities or plans for the group to take part in. Quinn could very easily survive outside the confines of the Fashion Club, but her own insecurities prevent her from venturing outside the safety of the group's presence. Although she presents a very shallow and self-centered persona around Sandi and the other girls, Quinn is noticeably more intelligent, insightful and conservative than she leads others to believe. Many of her battles with Sandi are signs of Quinn's maturity and her repressed concern for others. Quinn was voiced by Wendy Hoopes.