00:00So first and foremost, tell me about your partnership with QVC and talk to me a little bit about the
00:04designs.
00:05Well, I am extraordinarily thrilled that I'm doing this with QVC because people, a lot of people know me from
00:13the Open Hearts collection, one of which I'm wearing here.
00:17And I've had so many people saying, you know, where can we get it? How can we find it?
00:21And I said, you know, it's it isn't anywhere right now. You can only get secondhand ones.
00:25But I said to QVC and why I'm as excited about QVC is I can actually tell the story.
00:33And really, it's not just a piece of jewelry. It's not about just a carat weight or whether it's gold
00:38or yellow gold or silver or whatever.
00:40It it has an enormous amount of meaning. And that's why I think people really responded to it when it
00:45first came out all those years ago.
00:48And from when it came out originally to where we are now, it could not be more appropriate to what's
00:54going on in the world right now.
00:55So really, the open heart speaks about showing that your heart is open, your heart and your mind open to
01:03the idea of change, of connecting with other people, of not closing yourself off and just being stuck in whoever
01:10and wherever and whatever pain you're in or whatever trauma you've been through.
01:14But like my mother had said, having survived World War Two, that everyone in life has challenges.
01:20And when they do, they close up their heart. And if they could open their heart, accept, biggest one, reach
01:27out to help someone else.
01:28There will always be someone worse off than them and they'll have purpose.
01:31So this represents an enormous amount. And over the years, I've just received the most amazing, oh gosh, letters and
01:39texts and emails from people and met people for whom the open heart image has really, they say, changed their
01:47lives because they become part of the community.
01:49And when they wear one, people go, oh, I know what that is. And they speak openly about where they've
01:56been, where they were and where they are now and where they're going.
01:58So as much as anything, being able to do it with QVC, I'm able to tell the story.
02:04And the story is a very big part of it. I'm wearing one here now.
02:08And these are all amazing, top quality lab grown diamonds.
02:13And we have earrings that match in the with the yellow gold and also with the silver finish.
02:20And I'm just I'm excited, especially the world as it is right now.
02:26I think America and hopefully everywhere else, people are going to open their eyes and their hearts and they're just
02:32going to go, OK, we're pivoting.
02:35We're doing something new. We're being our best selves.
02:38We're going to connect. And if your heart is open, you can weather change and you can invite possibility.
02:48And I think that is what the open heart means to me.
02:51And of course, we have our Open Hearts Foundation where we do a lot of charitable work as well.
02:56So so I get to tell that story in QVC.
03:00And then I get to tell the story of the new one, which I'll put down here.
03:06I'm purposely all black so you could maybe see what it looks like.
03:11This is I'm so excited about because no one's ever seen or heard about this.
03:16So I rather famously, I apparently got engaged.
03:22Who knew I'd find love at this time in my life?
03:25And John, somebody who gave me this ring, had seen it, I think, in a like a vintage stall somewhere
03:33at an art show.
03:35And it spoke to him and he went, that's what I want to give Jane when the time's right.
03:39And what is so special about it and why I love it so much is it's I don't know if
03:45you can see it's actually we found it's called a Trois et Moi ring.
03:49And apparently Napoleon presented one of this kind of design to Josephine back in the day.
03:54So it actually is a known design.
03:57And I had no idea.
03:58But what I loved was we are together.
04:02We're connected.
04:03We're not on top of one another.
04:04We're not equally side by side.
04:06We're aligned and his past and my past are represented with the diamonds that lead to the stone.
04:13So I thought I want to come up with a modern version of that.
04:18And so this is my modern version.
04:20And we called it soul to soul.
04:22Had I called it soul to soul, because I think more than anything, we want to connect right now.
04:28And that's what's missing in today's society.
04:31And especially amongst young people, you know, with the texts and the Instagrams and whatever and social media, connection is
04:38incredibly important.
04:40And I wanted it to be something that wasn't, you know, specifically about, you know, engagement or marriage or anything
04:46like that.
04:47This is about being connected to another human being, because you have something in common.
04:52You have a bond, you have a, the best way I could say it, is a soul to soul feeling.
04:59And that connection can be a best friend.
05:02It could be someone that you're in love with.
05:04It could be a mother, daughter, grandmother, grandchild, granddaughter.
05:08It could be people that are bonding, having gone through, for example, a family member of mine has been going
05:13through cancer a great deal recently.
05:15And she's really bonded with other people that have been going through what she's been going through.
05:20And also, actually, one of my best friends, her daughter's husband just passed.
05:27And she was just thinking of something she wanted to wear and feel.
05:31And she wanted her granddaughter to have to always remember dad.
05:34And she was just saying how that really spoke to her, that his soul and their souls are together forever,
05:41regardless of whether we're here or not.
05:43So there are a lot of different meanings behind it.
05:46But I think the biggest part and the thing that's most exciting to me about it is, it's about whatever
05:52your idea of connection is.
05:56And I put the earring on.
05:59So, and I love this earring, because I was, you know, usually wear just a single diamond or something very
06:05simple.
06:05But this is lovely, because it has the connection, soul to soul, and a little kind of gold ball in
06:10the, where the hole goes.
06:13Because I hate seeing the hole, personally.
06:15So your engagement ring inspired a design that you made, correct?
06:20Yes.
06:20Wow.
06:21But, you know, the design, who knew it was famous?
06:23Napoleon gave it to Josephine.
06:25So I don't know whether he designed it, but it goes back that far.
06:28And, you know, the official name for that is called Trois-moi, you and me.
06:36But I decided to call ours Soul to Soul.
06:40I love that.
06:41Okay.
06:41And so I drew it up, like I always do.
06:44The open heart came from a painting.
06:48The drawing I did on the back of a paper napkin.
06:52And then I took it back to my art studio, and it became all these paintings.
06:55And then it became, oh, behind me, you can see, this is one of the sculptures.
07:00So these are bronze sculptures, and they're in three different sizes.
07:04But what's really exciting about them is that I think there are at least nine or ten different large, huge
07:15sculptures like that between America and Canada in public places, including, believe it or not, Bradenton, Florida.
07:23And I remember that one particularly because it's on the broad walk there.
07:27And it was, you know, magical to have it there, of course.
07:30And then when the terrible hurricane came through, I looked on my news feed, and they're showing the hurricane.
07:36And, of course, you can't really tell something's a hurricane unless you see something in the foreground.
07:40And some news person had decided, without knowing it was mine, to have this sort of lashing wind and storm
07:46and everything coming right through the very resilient seven-foot bronze open heart.
07:52And I thought, you know what, that just speaks volumes to me, that that was there, that was standing with
07:59fortitude.
07:59That was there, you know, with its message of, you know, we can get through this.
08:03We will be open-hearted.
08:05We will help our neighbors.
08:06We will find purpose, and we'll find something good out of this.
08:10So, yeah, so that was open hearts.
08:12And then this one, I obviously, I took it for the idea, the concept from the tour and moire, from
08:18the ring that John gave me.
08:21And I'm in love with this right now.
08:24A lot of really young people are loving it.
08:26I think, yeah, a lot of really young girls, I think it's for all ages, but I think it really
08:35speaks to something people are looking for right now, which is human connection.
08:39Yeah.
08:40So, when you got your engagement ring, was the first thing you thought of, like, oh, my gosh, I need
08:44to, like, design something like this for my life?
08:47No, absolutely not at all.
08:49Not at all.
08:50But wherever I went, people just went, that's unique.
08:55That's different, right?
08:56And then I kind of went to some jewelry stores, and I said, you know, do you have tour and
09:03moire rings?
09:03They said, yes.
09:04You know, all of a sudden, everybody wants a tour and moire ring.
09:07I thought, well, I wonder whether we started a, you know, a thing there.
09:10But we didn't.
09:12Napoleon started it with Josephine.
09:13So, it goes way back, but I think the sentiment behind it as well was that the idea that you
09:24connect with someone and you've had a life.
09:27You bring what you call it baggage or experience or, yeah, I mean, the spirit of your journey in life.
09:37I mean, nothing stops in life.
09:39You know, you get born, and it just is a continual cycle, you know, and it's never too late.
09:46And I hope that, you know, that I can maybe inspire people to realize that you don't have to give
09:52up.
09:53You don't have to give up on finding a partner or finding love or finding a friend or someone that
09:59you can share whatever that stage of life is that you're going through,
10:04whether it's you've just had a new baby and you feel alone and how do I do it all?
10:08And now, suddenly, you have this community of amazing young women, you know, that you can go, you two, oh,
10:14my God.
10:15You know, whatever it is, you get to bond with other people going through the same thing.
10:20Or whether it's, you know, a teenager going through what happens in middle and high school where people can be
10:27bullied.
10:27You know, it's a huge deal.
10:30And when you have a real friend, you have someone that you can connect with and be really honest with
10:36and entrust your feelings with.
10:39I think that's really what I was hoping for was that this would represent that.
10:45Yeah.
10:46And, you know, you are the queen of jewelry.
10:48So what can you share about the ring?
10:52Is there anything you can share about it from a details perspective?
10:55Oh, yes.
10:56Well, these are lab grown diamonds.
10:58So that is the best diamond you can possibly have.
11:01Plus no blood, no blood diamond, which is very important to me.
11:06But it turns out that people have suddenly realized that a lab grown diamond is so perfect that it doesn't
11:12matter how much money you spend on a on a mine diamond.
11:15If you've got the most expensive one on the planet, it's this is going to sparkle as much, if not
11:22more.
11:23So I love that.
11:24What about the engagement ring?
11:25Oh, my engagement ring.
11:26Yes.
11:26Well, these are this is actually Victorian.
11:29It's a Victorian version.
11:31I was told by my jeweler and it has a diamond in the middle and it has a lot of
11:38smaller diamonds around it.
11:40So it's like a like a flower and and then it has single diamonds going up the barrel on both
11:46sides, which represents, you know, his life before me and my life before him.
