Fashion forward

By Mark Gordon
| 11:00 a.m. August 12, 2016

Entrepreneurs

Clutching a handmade book of samples of her textile design work, Charlotte Osterman nervously walked into a San Francisco Neiman Marcus in 2002 with career-altering hopes.

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