Diamonds, dupattas and zero Jaya Bachchan, celebrating 40 years of AJSK at Mubarak Baug

Forty years in, and Abu Jani Sandeep Khosla decided the only appropriate way to mark it was to empty out their entire contacts list. Models, editors, muses, the odd influencer holding a phone at chest height, if you've ever so much as hemmed a dupatta for this house, you had a seat last night.

The setting did half the talking. Mubarak Baug, new, enormous, entirely too much in the best way had the air of a temple dedicated to good taste. Walk in through the art deco glass doors, past the hot pink custom jewellery stand, and look up, a ‘lost city’ installation hangs off the ground floor ceiling like it's daring you to bring a wide-angle lens.

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Shine Shivam's mural took up an entire wall, while Wolf Jaipur turned the house's own leftover embroidery scraps into flower and wall installations, nothing says ‘forty years of zero waste’ quite like couture offcuts reborn as art. The entrance band baaja, meanwhile, made sure nobody arrived quietly.

Inside, the energy could only be described as BITCHITA, that specific frequency where everyone is charming and nobody is available for less than full price.

Sonam and Dimple worked the room with the same understated confidence, elegant, saying plenty without saying much. Isha arrived fully Mukamalified, courtesy of stylist Andrew Mukamal. Nita Ambani's diamond necklace did numbers that could rival a certain fictional Atlantic shipwreck.

Notably absent, Jaya Bachchan, and therefore, any paparazzi crowd control whatsoever.

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The real marvel, though, was the room full of '90s supermodels looking exactly as they did thirty years ago, collagen clearly plays favourites.

Pinky Reddy made an appearance (a Goa mansion invite, quietly manifested). Orry showed up channeling Jeetendra by way of Gen Z, and somehow it worked. Navya's gold mini stole a few glances too.

Forty years, one legendary night, zero fine lines in sight.