Jane Win Blooms With Barbara Bush Jewelry Collaboration

By Karen Dybis | April 07, 2025

Jane Win has partnered with the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy on a collection of four new pendants. The jewelry brand will give 20% of the pieces’ proceeds to the organization founded by the former first lady that supports literacy programs nationwide.

The Jane Win x Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy collaboration, known as Bloom, features a peony, a heart, and two flower-embellished coins. Jane Win founder Jane Winchester Paradis says she focused on the peony for this collection because it was Barbara Bush’s favorite flower.

Bush, the wife of the 41st president, George H.W. Bush. would have been 100 this year, so the collaboration is timed to that anniversary, Paradis says. Peonies represent love, honor, and compassion, which make them an ideal symbol for the foundation’s work, she adds.

Jane Win x BBF — Jane Win’s Bloom collection, to benefit the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy, includes a mother-of-pearl heart, two gold coins with peonies in relief, and a peony with mother-of-pearl center.

“Like so many, I love the peony flower, so we made flowers the focal point of the collection,” Paradis says. “The word bloom and the meaning it holds connects with the mission of literacy. To bloom is to thrive—it is beautiful, and it leads to a better future.”

Paradis worked with Bush’s granddaughter Jenna Bush Hager on the collection. Bush Hager regularly wears Jane Win jewelry on the Today show, where she is a cohost and promotes the Read With Jenna list of books.

“We knew we wanted to collaborate in some way, and since the philanthropic mission for Jane Win is around education and my love of books, it all very naturally evolved,” Paradis says. “I have to tell you, I am so proud of this collaboration. And of course I love the jewelry—it’s beautiful—but, more so, I am honored to work with an institution with such a legacy as the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy. It’s a career high for me.”

Bloom Jane Win — *On its web page for the Bloom original coin ($298), Jane Win shares a quote from Barbara Bush comparing the growth of peonies and literacy.*

In its three-plus decades, the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy has provided more than $110 million in funding for literacy programs in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

Reading is a favorite hobby of Paradis, who says she takes time to read every day. She even worked in a bookstore in New Hampshire as a teen, and read every best seller and spent hours in the children’s collection there.

Jane Win Bloom — *The word* bloom appears on the back of the mother-of-pearl heart pendant ($328) and the coin pendants in Jane Win’s Barbara Bush Foundation collab.

“My father was a professor and always gave books as gifts. For my college graduation, I received a limited-edition book on Miró, as my thesis was on Calder, Miró, and Matisse,” says Paradis.

“I have always not only loved to read books, but I love their beauty,” she adds. “When I was little, my favorite book was Watership Down. In boarding school, like so many, I found a friend in Holden Caulfield in Catcher in the Rye.

“In my 20s, I lived in Barcelona and went to the running of the bulls in Pamplona while reading anything and everything Hemingway. In my 40s, when I read Kelly Corrigan’s Tell Me More, I was so taken with its messages that I bought a copy for all four of our daughters and highlighted sections for them to remember—for them to hold on to forever.”

So far, 2025 has been one of the best years ever for Jane Win, Paradis says. Its annual Jan. 1 debut of a new coin pendant was hugely successful, with the initial release of the Grace coin selling out quickly.

“This collaboration is a way to continue to share that grace, to give back,” Paradis says.

Top: Jane Win created a new collection, Bloom, in partnership with the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy. (Photos courtesy of Jane Win)