Sandi Griffin

"That's why I'm the president of the Fashion Club."

- one of Sandi's frequent boasts.

Sandi Griffin is a character from the animated show Daria. Sandi is the head the "Fashion Club", as they call themselves, a group of girls at Lawndale High who use fashion dos and don'ts as an excuse for social elitism. While all the girls in the club are portrayed as vastly shallow and function as a collective antagonist, Sandi is the central bad influence of the group and arch-nemesis to Daria's sister, Quinn.

Fashion Club
Sandi founded the Fashion club after a disaster at her previous school when she tried to organize the school dance committee. While her brothers were to blame for the disaster mainly Sandi's mother assured her that volunteering is synonymous with being a doormat. Sandi seems to have taken the experience to heart and when arriving at Lawdale High she founded the Fashion Club, a clique dedicated to being fashion savvy. Though the club officially was founded in the name of preventing peers from becoming tone-deaf to their own appearance with Sandi at the helm the club became a socially excluding elitist clique. Though often cruel and thoughtless to their schoolmates, including each-other more than once, most of the members do so out of self-involvement rather than genuine malice. Unlike her fellow Fashion Club members Sandi's cruelty is almost always intentional.

Sandi is officially the president of the Fashion Club and has Quinn Morgendorfer as her vice-president, the two despite their pretense of admiration for each-other in truth each consider the other a rival, Quinn because Sandi is offically higher rank and holds sway over their circle and Sandi because Quinn has more male admirers and fashion sense. Sandi tries to covertly sabotage Quinn whenever she gets the chance, change her outfit at the last second to conflict with Quinn's, spreading rumors about Quinn and even trying to physically harm her on a few occasions.

Family
Sandi's mother, Linda frequently critiques those around her, most notably Daria and Quinn's mother Helen Morgendorfer. Like Sandi Linda often snipes at and undermines Helen because she is more competent than she is her job though Linda is a Marketing-vice President and Helen is an lawyer Linda's position is higher in her company and higher paying; leading Linda and Helen's rivalry often mirroring Sandi and Quinn's. Sandi's father Tom is rarely seen on the show but during his short appearance in the episode Fair Enough suggests that he is trepidatious and submissive to his wife and kids' demands. Sandi's brothers, Chris and Sam, are two preteens often caught-up in a traditional sibling-rivalry. Chris and Sam publicly roughhouse, shout at each other and call each-other names neither one has much respect for their big sister however both are completely enamored with Quinn and compete with each-other to get her attention and favor when she is around. It is unknown if any one member of Sandi's family has had a deciding influence over Sandi's behavior, but at the very least Sandi's psyche' is easily comprehended by seeing her family life.

Sandi's Fall
As Quinn is embarrassed of her older sister, through-out the series Quinn frequently refers to Daria as either her weird cousin or an exchange student living at her house. In the episode Lucky Strike Sandi finds out Daria is in-fact Quinn's sister and tries to blackmail her wit he information, however by this point Quinn has become more empathetic with her sister and more exasperated with Sandi and allows Sandi to do as she pleases. Sandi's announcement to her fellow members only prompts fellow members Tiffany Blum-Deckler and Stacy to reveal that they were aware of Quinn's relationship to Daria since they first met her and that they had not called attention to it for Quinn's sake at which point Sandi plainly exposed not only for being the dimmest of the of the fashion club but also the most petty.

In the special ''Is It College Yet? ''Sandi loses her voice due to a viral infection and Fashion Club member, Stacy Rowe, believes her wish that "Sandi would shut up" caused it. Sandi, ever the opportunists tries to use Stacy's guilt to get her to do her a long list of things to make it up for her but Stacy is pushed to the breaking point and takes a indefinite sabbatical from the club. Over the course of the special all members of the club eventually go on indefinite sabbatical leaving Sandi alone until she is forced to go on one too, claiming 'she was thinking of doing so anyway' and effectively dissolving the Fashion Club. The girls continue to hang-out despite their club officially no longer existing however this robs Sandi of nearly all her clout.