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'''The Fashion Club''' is a clique at [[Lawndale High]], schoolconsisting clubof President [[Sandi Griffin]], Vice President [[Quinn Morgendorffer]], secretary [[Stacy Rowe]], and member [[Tiffany Blum-Deckler]]. The club is concerned with the promotion of "looking good," both through example and the critique of others. They have ''extremely'' high physical and social standards for admission: there are strict requirements for weight and fingertip length, and [[Brooke]] had to have extensive plastic surgery to get the point of ''possibly'' getting membership.

It's made clear throughout the show that they're ''very'' bad academically. In Quinn's case, this turns out to be because she's bright but is deliberately not trying hard enough. She knows she's smarter than the others and expects to get higher marks (but doesn't let on about this), and was worried when she didn't get a much higher score on the P-STATs in "[[Is It Fall Yet?]]". We don't know for sure if Sandi is dumb or just lazy, but we ''do'' know that Tiffany and Stacy just aren't that bright - "[[Is It Fall Yet?]]" has Stacy noted as trying to learn and not doing well. Stacy ''does'' do better on P-STAT scores than both Sandi and Tiffany though. While Sandi expresses contempt for the idea of academic learning, she still pretends she got higher marks than she did so she didn't seem dumber than the rest of the group.

- Very well, I'm sold|Daria and Jane watching the train wreck which was the fashion club picking up clothes for the poor collection and being too picky here., [[The Old and the Beautiful]]}}

The Fashion Club ''appear'' to be at the top of the Lawndale High social order: at noted, boys used to do anything for them, Brooke was desperate to join, they got into the right parties, and they have a strong following of boys (up to and including [[Bob|a bloody punk]]) in "[[The Story of D]]". The Fashion Club definitely views itself as highly popular, and Quinn certainly is. However, Brooke was the only girl we saw who wanted to join, the boys did stop giving them rides after a while, and most of the boys shown were interested solely in ''Quinn'' (to Sandi's annoyance), with Stacy being blown off by [[Bret Strand|her only known dateRobert]]. Theonce clubwent onlyon hada threedate members before Quinn joined.with [[EvanDaria]], asolely popularto kidkeep andsitting memberat ofQuinn's the [[Lawndale High Track Team|track team]], had publicly dismissed the Clubtable ("[[SeeThe JaneNew RunKid]]"). Notably, Tiffany once stated "Everyone likes us because we tell them what's wrong with their outfits", a remark that heavily implies the ''opposite'' (on the writer's part).

The "[[Selective Soulmate]]" website (see web presence) implies Sandi ''has'' to date people who don't live in Lawndale by the time of Season 5, as she's developed a reputation for paranoia and viciousness.

As what the Fashion Club means to Daria, that nightmare scene in "[[Monster]]" said enough.

In 2001/02, they'd created [[Selective Soulmate]], an online dating site for popular people.

There was a period of time where lesbian relationships between members of the Fashion Club were explored in ''Daria'' [[slash|femmeslash]]. [[The Passion Club]] by [[Gystex]] is the most prominentwell-known pairingsfanfiction wereto Quinn/Sandi,characterize withthe Quinn/StacyFashion aClub closeas secondlesbians. The genrefanfiction reachedcanonically itsships acmeQuinn withand "[[TheSandi Passionas Club]],"lovers whichand gainedexplores notorietyexperimentation forbetween itsStacy after-promand sequenceJane, whereas thewell Fashionas Clubbetween membersStacy indulgedand inTiffany. aThe liquor-fueledmost mutualprominent trystlesbian pairings in fanfiction were Quinn/Sandi, with Quinn/Stacy a jacuzzi.close second. This approach (along with many other Dariafic tropes) was deconstructed in [[The Angst Guy]]'s [[And When Your Heart Begins to Bleed]], wherein Stacy's advances towards Quinn are rejected, leaving her to pine.

==Fashion Club centred fanficsFanfics==

[https://web.archive.org/web/20070519063244/http://www.mtv.com:80/onair/daria/fashionclub/digitaldating/ http://www.mtv.com/onair/daria/fashionclub/digitaldating/ Fashion Club's Guide to Digital Dating (and "Selective Soulmate" dating website)] (second ''Daria'' website)