Premiering on Thursday evening at Teatro Dell’Opera, Maria Grazia Chiuri designs the costumes for the ballet Nuit Blanche in her hometown of Rome.

Maria Grazia Chiuri&rsquo;s debut in the world of costume design left a lasting impression with the Dior creative director creating memorable looks that transcended the ballet fashion trend that has taken over in the past several years. &nbsp;The collection&rsquo;s operatic success showcased Dior&rsquo;s chic influence while still maintaining the integrity of the performance&rsquo;s narrative. Conducive to the ballet&rsquo;s elegant style of dance,&nbsp;Chiuri designs were both conceptually traditional in their allowance for movement and stand out in their innovation and uniquely fashionable attire. &nbsp;Drawing from&nbsp;silhouettes popular of the&nbsp;1940s and 1950s, the costumes exuded the style of contemporary Dior, while still maintaining the traditional functionality of ballet-wear, including the clothing&rsquo;s uniquely emotion-evoking appearance.

Perhaps the most impressive aspect of the Italian designer&#39;s breaking into this new genre of design is the simplicity with which she approached the concept of dance. &nbsp;Describing her childhood infatuation with A Midsummer Night&rsquo;s Dream,&nbsp;Chiuri comments on the universality of dance: &ldquo;It&rsquo;s an expression of freedom. Everybody dances. It&rsquo;s a natural attitude. If you look at children around the world, they all dance. It&rsquo;s very human.&rdquo;

A walk through Maria Grazia Chiuri's Rome with Chiara Ferragni

In the wake of her operatic debut as a costume designer,&nbsp;Chiuri took Dior&rsquo;s audience around her native Rome, lending a behind the scenes look at the designer&rsquo;s efforts that went into creating a performance of this scale. It is clear from the video that Chiuri&rsquo;s personal narrative is interwoven into each of the pieces she created, adding an element of nostalgia to an already dazzling display of creative inventiveness.

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Dior's Maria Grazia Chiuri Breaks Into Costume Design

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