All Aboard! A Star-Studded Night in London on Baz Luhrmann and Catherine Martin’s Belmond Train Carriage
Tom Ford, Roger Federer, and Stella McCartney were among those who boarded the Belmond British Pullman on Saturday night for the Celia carriage’s maiden voyage.
Reported by Vogue.
London Victoria Station, 6 p.m. on a Saturday. Commuters drag their bags toward the weekend, tourists funnel underground — and then, if you look twice, there's Roger Federer walking arm-in-arm with his wife toward platform two. Tom Ford. Stella McCartney. Emma Corrin and Alexa Chung clinking glasses through a train window. The British Pullman had arrived, and so had everyone worth watching.
The occasion, according to Vogue, was the debut of Celia — a new private dining and events carriage on the iconic Belmond British Pullman, designed by Baz Luhrmann and Catherine Martin and unveiled that evening with co-host Anna Wintour, Vogue's global editorial director. The timing wasn't incidental: the whole affair landed just days after the 2026 Met Gala, which Luhrmann and Martin had also helped shape. If anyone was gala-fatigued, they hid it beautifully.
Champagne, Beef Wellington, and a Disco Ceiling
Martin kicked things off behind Celia's bar — dressed in a marabou-sleeved Prada two-piece, personally pouring Champagne into Waterford crystal coupés — while guests settled into carriages for an Isle of Wight tomato tart and beef Wellington, the Kent Downs rolling past the windows like a painting no one commissioned. Luhrmann, wearing a Bode suit with braided lapels, moved through the train the way only someone genuinely thrilled by their own party does: urging everyone to eat more, drink more, stay longer.
After dessert, the carriage transformed. Espresso martinis materialized, the pastel-lit ceiling came into its own, and the car cleared into a proper dance floor — disco classics, the whole thing. When the train eventually pulled back, a fleet of vintage cars whisked the crowd to Mark's Club on Berkeley Square, where the night stretched well past reasonable hours. The singular question over nightcaps: when do we get to do this again?
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