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Suzanne Vanderbilt, GM ‘Damsel’ Turned Pioneering Auto Designer

Vanderbilt in her Corvette in the mid-1950s (after starting at GM, Vanderbilt became a lifelong Corvette enthusiast). Image via the Suzanne Vanderbilt Papers, Cranbrook Archives Last week, we looked at the story behind GM's famous Damsels of Design, a group of ten women brought on board by the automaker in the mid-1950s in an attempt to better reach newly powerful female consumers. Unfortunately, America's first all-female design team was short-lived; most of the designers departed by the…


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