Exceptional 2000s Richard Tyler Black Silk Dress w Gathered Inserts & Scooped Open Back designer-ceil-chapman Sleeves: 27" from shoulder seam

Sleeves: 27" from shoulder seam to longest point

This was helped in part by the appearance of Renee Zellweger who wore its twin on the cover of Elle Magazine that season

A small slit is on one side of the hem

The jacket buttons to close and the skirt has a painted metal zipper and hook & eye at the waist

painstakingly made from hand-painted strips of silk

Exceptional 2000s Richard Tyler Black Silk Dress w Gathered Inserts & Scooped Open Back designer-ceil-chapman Sleeves: 27" from shoulder seamThe dress is from one of the 2000s Richard Tyler Couture collection. It was made under the creative direction of Richard Tyler. Richard Tyler was the designer to wear in the 1990s and early 2000s. He won the Council of Fashion Designers of America New Talent award in 1993. In 1994 and 1995 he won the Council's Womenswear Designer of the Year award. Julia Roberts, Janet Jackson, and Sigourney Weaver were just a few of the stars who loved his work and