It was just after 6 p.m. on Saturday night on the easternmost platform of London Victoria Station. Commuters wheeled their suitcases home after a long week at the office, and tourists surged towards the underground entrances to catch their West End shows.<\/p>\n
But if you looked a little closer, you would have spotted an unlikely cast of characters boarding the 6:30 p.m. train at platform two. Was that Roger<\/a> and Mirka Federer strolling arm-in-arm over to the carriage? Tom Ford and Stella McCartney<\/a>, bobbing and weaving through the commuter crowds to climb aboard? Emma Corrin clinking glasses with Alexa Chung behind a window? Yes, in fact, it was.<\/p>\n A glittering crowd had descended to travel on Celia, the new private dining and events carriage on the Belmond British Pullman train<\/a>\u2014invited by its designers, Baz Luhrmann<\/a> and Catherine Martin<\/a>, and the night\u2019s co-host, Vogue\u2019s global editorial director, Anna Wintour. (All of this just a few days after the 2026 Met Gala<\/a>, which Luhrmann and Martin too had a hand in bringing to life<\/a>.)<\/p>\n If there was any sense of party fatigue, though, you wouldn\u2019t have guessed it. The night began with cocktails in the Celia car\u2014where Martin herself was stationed behind the bar in a marabou-sleeved Prada two-piece, cheerfully pouring Champagne into Waterford crystal coup\u00e9s\u2014before guests dispersed across several carriages to enjoy dinner of an Isle of Wight tomato tart and beef Wellington. The picture-postcard landscapes of the Kent Downs, meanwhile, unfurled behind the windows. Luhrmann, in a Bode suit with braided lapels, swanned up and down the train throughout the night, encouraging everyone to eat, drink, and be merry.<\/p>\n After dessert was served, everyone returned to Celia for espresso martinis and an hour or two of dancing to disco classics under the carriage\u2019s pastel-lit ceilings. The majority of guests were then bundled into a fleet of vintage cars to head over to Mark\u2019s Club on Berkeley Square, ready for the night to continue into the early hours. The recurring question over nightcaps at Mark\u2019s: When would everyone be invited to ride with Celia again? Full steam ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was just after 6 p.m. on Saturday night on the easternmost platform of London Victoria Station. Commuters…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[27,15479,6364],"class_list":{"0":"post-33147","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-london","9":"tag-storytypenews-trending","10":"tag-web"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116552273899598992","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}