Origin: Breaking Through the Imagination and Opening Up New Horizons of Beauty
A car owner, who is extremely sensitive to light, considers the light of the starry sky at night in the countryside as a treasure, and wishes to enjoy this soft light inside the car. It took the Rolls-Royce couture team several years to bring the starry skies of Goodwood to the interior of the Rolls-Royce Phantom in 2007! The birth of the Starlight Headliner opened a new chapter in Rolls-Royce aesthetics.
Production: Ingenious combination of traditional craftsmanship and modern technology
Just as there are no two identical leaves in the world, every Rolls-Royce car with a starlight headliner is unique. In the customization process, these "stars" usually take 9 hours to create, but personalized patterns require customers' exclusive templates, which take more than 17 hours to complete.
First, 800-1600 holes are drilled from the roof, each of which needs to be carefully designed, and then the optical fiber is installed in these holes, ensuring that the optical fiber has the correct height on the hidden side; finally, it is tightly installed into the visible leather surface so that the "stars" can be ready to shine at any time.
The unique effect of the starlight ceiling is achieved by installing exquisite optical fibers at different depths and angles, so that light is emitted from multiple directions and at different intensities. The brightness of the "stars" can be adjusted to create the atmosphere desired by the customer: providing sufficient brightness for relaxation and reading, or creating a beautiful, gentle soft light through elegant optical fibers.
Let us look back at the classic masterpieces of Goodwood's "starlight ceiling" and witness the development of this unique craft.
2013 Phantom Celestial Special Edition
The seventh generation Phantom was unveiled and delivered to the owner at the Home of Rolls-Royce at midnight on January 1, 2003. The roof lining features more than 1,000 hand-woven individual fibre optics, vividly recreating the starry sky on that historic night in Goodwood.
2018 Wraith Streamer Collection Edition
The dazzling Starlight Headliner creates an immersive theatre-like experience: 1,340 hand-woven fibre optic beams emit colorful starlight, creating a starry and quiet night sky. The shooting star effect carefully choreographed by Rolls-Royce debuts on the Phantom Streamer Collector’s Edition, creating a romantic moment of a shooting star streaking across the sky.
In 2020, the Phantom "Hidden Key" Special Edition
The Rolls-Royce Phantom "Hidden Key" Special Edition uses the password as a design element throughout the car, presenting an exciting exploration journey on the basis of artistic aesthetics for the first time.
Once you get in the car, with the help of light, the unique two-color starlight roof of the Phantom "Hidden Key" Special Edition shows a pattern full of data mysterious charm.
In 2021, the Phantom "Sky Soul" Collector's Edition
The design of the Phantom "Sky Soul" Collector's Edition integrates multiple aesthetic and ideological themes of time and the sky. One of the key sources of inspiration is the extraordinary celestial body - pulsar. The interior ceiling design is a combination of delicate fiber optic lighting and exquisite Bespoke high-end custom embroidery, creating a magnificent and extraordinary pulsar headliner.
2022 Phantom "Northern Lights" Collector's Edition
This customized version of Phantom, equipped with a multi-color starlight headliner, uses blue, green and white fiber bundles to achieve the unique "starlight" effect. The Rolls-Royce Bespoke advanced customization department invested a lot of time to ensure the precise position of the fiber optics to present the ethereal beauty of the northern lights.
2022 Cullinan "Fashion Source" Collector's Edition
Rolls-Royce Bespoke advanced customization designers created a new starlight tailgate. This unique configuration brings together 192 softly shining "stars" in the perforated leather interior. When the tailgate is opened, the starry sky atmosphere of the starlight canopy in the car is extended to the outside of the car.
In 2023, the BLACK BADGE Cullinan "Phantom Blue Shadow" exclusive collector's edition
Through the "Phantom Blue Shadow" model, Rolls-Royce has created a more dazzling "Space Boundary" starlight canopy: the moon pattern is made of 250,000 stitches of five different colors of embroidery, surrounded by 1,183 hand-inlaid fiber optic "stars" - including 799 white and 384 blue.
In 2023, the BLACK BADGE Ghost "Eclipse Phantom Corona" exclusive collector's edition
This Bespoke high-end customized model uses a unique dynamic starlight headliner As the door closes and the engine starts, the "stars" on the starlight headliner gradually darken, and a series of breathtaking dynamic pictures unfold, fully interpreting the dark outline of the moon gradually unfolding and finally completely covering the total solar eclipse of the sun.
