Young, who shared great camaraderie with her contemporaries Jerry Hall and Iman, remembers the master designer as “gentle, courteous, shy and retiring. A fashion purist. When he stopped designing, in 2004, it was like he had taken his liver out”.

Though she is now a well-regarded socialite and jewellery designer, very little of Young is known in her home country. Her father, Pritam Singh Bhinder, a former air force man, still lives in Noida; her mother, Dr Param Bhinder, used to work with the United Nations and lives in London. Young eventually married a New Zealand hotelier, the now-deceased Tony Young, and has homes in London, Paris and Bangkok.

Her jewellery, inspired from India and Thailand, is sold at the Oscar de la Renta store in New York, Arabesque in London and Nina Griscom in Paris, with pieces retailing at around US $ 1,000.

“I still have several friends in Delhi,” she says, counting Maheep and Tunnu Singh, Bina Ramani, Mohit and Feroze Gujral and Bindu Vadhera among them.