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{{Short description|British model (1940–2022)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2023}}
{{Use Indian English|date=March 2023}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Jan de Souza
| image = JandeSouza1967.png
| alt = A young brown-skinned woman with short dark hair, wearing a yellow top
| caption = Jan de Souza, from a 1967 magazine
| other_names =
| birth_name = Jan Margaret de Souza
| birth_date = 14 August 1940
| birth_place = Agra, India
| death_date = 11 June 2022 (aged 81)
| death_place =
| occupation = Fashion model, nightclub hostess
| years_active =
| known_for =
| notable_works =
| spouse(s) = [[Johnny Gold]]
| relatives =
}}

'''Jan Margaret de Souza Gold''' (14 August 1940 – 11 June 2022) was a British model and nightclub hostess.

== Early life ==
Jan de Souza was born in [[Agra]], India, the daughter of George de Souza and Inez de Souza. Her father was a railway executive. Her first language was Hindi; she was raised in London after 1948.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |date=21 June 2022 |title=Jan de Souza obituary |language=en |work=The Sunday Times |url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/obituaries/article/jan-de-souza-obituary-kbkzdbqtk |access-date=2022-12-04 |issn=0140-0460}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Coke |first=Hope |date=2022-06-20 |title=Swinging Sixties muse and grande dame of London's social scene Jan de Souza dies at 81 |url=https://www.tatler.com/article/jan-de-souza-obituary-johnny-gold-wife-model-mary-quant-muse |access-date=2022-12-04 |website=Tatler |language=en-GB}}</ref>

== Career ==
At art school in the early 1960s, de Souza met designer [[Mary Quant]],<ref>{{Cite journal |date=25 October 1967 |title=Coming for the Cup |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/4924819 |journal=The Australian Women's Weekly |pages=9 |via=Trove}}</ref> and became a model for Quant's fashion ideas,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Quant |first=Mary |url=http://archive.org/details/quantbyquant0000unse |title=Quant by Quant |date=1966 |publisher=London : Pan |others=Internet Archive |pages=169, 190}}</ref> especially the popular [[miniskirt]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Levy |first=Shawn |url=http://archive.org/details/readysteadygo00shaw |title=Ready, steady, go! : the smashing rise and giddy fall of swinging London |date=2003 |publisher=New York : Broadway Books |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-7679-0588-6 |pages=185}}</ref> She also modeled designs by [[Foale and Tuffin]],<ref>{{Cite book |last=Webb |first=Iain R. |url=http://archive.org/details/foaletuffinsixti0000webb |title=Foale and Tuffin : the sixties : a decade in fashion |date=2009 |publisher=Woodbridge : ACC Editions; New York, NY |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-1-85149-606-8 |pages=12, 125}}</ref> posed with musicians including a young [[David Bowie]],<ref name=":0" /> and usually appeared in a short [[Vidal Sassoon]] hairstyle. She worked in Australia in 1967 and 1968.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=22 November 1967 |title=London look at Flemington |url=https://archive.org/details/The_Australian_Womens_Weekly_22_11_1967/page/n1/mode/2up?q=%22Jan+de+Souza%22 |journal=The Australian Women's Weekly |pages=3 |via=Internet Archive}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |date=20 March 1968 |title=What people are wearing in Sydney |url=https://archive.org/details/The_Australian_Womens_Weekly_20_03_1968/page/n111/mode/2up?q=%22Jan+de+Souza%22 |journal=The Australian Women's Weekly |pages=8 |via=Internet Archive}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Beach |first=Camilla |date=1968-02-21 |title=London Models on the Move |pages=14 |work=Australian Women's Weekly |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article51554148 |access-date=2022-12-04 |via=[[Trove]]}}</ref> She retired from modeling after she married in 1971, and was the hostess of her husband's exclusive [[Tramp (nightclub)|Tramp nightclub]] in London.<ref name=":1" />

== Personal life ==
Jan de Souza married [[Johnny Gold]] in 1971; writer [[Jackie Collins]] stood as de Souza's maid of honor at the wedding.<ref name=":1" /> They had two children. They retired to the Bahamas in 2003, and he died in October 2021.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cope |first=Rebecca |date=2021-10-08 |title=Johnny Gold, the legendary founder of Tramp nightclub, has died aged 89 |url=https://www.tatler.com/article/johnny-gold-the-legendary-founder-of-tramp-nightclub-has-died-aged-89 |access-date=2022-12-04 |website=Tatler |language=en-GB}}</ref> She died from cancer in June 2022, at the age of 81.<ref name=":1" />

== References ==
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== External links ==

* [https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/model-jan-de-souza-jumping-out-of-a-swimming-pool-covered-news-photo/2672489?adppopup=true "Jumping Jan"] (1968), [https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/the-model-jan-de-souza-wearing-the-dress-hoop-la-la-an-news-photo/104420667?adppopup=true "Fashion Show For Berkertex In 1966"] (1966), [https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/susan-gellard-mary-quant-jan-de-souza-with-their-vidal-news-photo/928877532?adppopup=true "Susan Gellard, Mary Quant, Jan De Souza with their Vidal Sassoon hairstyles"] (1965), [https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/an-outfit-called-time-out-designed-by-ronald-paterson-of-news-photo/3294945?adppopup=true "Paterson Design"] (1962), some of the photographs of Jan de Souza in the collection of [[Getty Images]]
* [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/4924811 "London Models Coming for Melbourne Cup"] ''The Australian Women's Weekly'' (25 October 1967); de Souza on the cover of an Australian women's magazine, via [[Trove]]

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[[Category:British models]]
[[Category:People from Agra]]

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