Gaudy Atelier

Los Angeles native and jewelry designer Corey Anthony Jones was born a natural entrepreneur. Corey spent his childhood imagining, creating, and designing everything from cars, t-shirts, to roller blades. As a kid, his mother took him along to the family jeweler, and on each trip his passion for jewelry grew stronger. During one of the visits, Corey created a unique design of his own at 11 years old. Upon seeing his design come to life, he decided to be a jeweler. Corey excelled in sports and earned an athletic scholarship to Clark Atlanta University where he majored in Business Administration with a concentration in Supply Chain Management. During college, he landed an internship with Reebok which led to a corporate position where he learned the inner workings of the fashion industry. He then took his experience and decided to focus on his childhood passion of jewelry. Corey studied design at the Gemological Institute of America in Carlsbad, CA and realized that being a designer was truly his calling. Corey draws inspiration from his childhood, art, architecture, pop culture, and spatial design.

“The savoir-faire of high jewelry Maisons integrated with the storytelling of sneaker culture.”
Corey Anthony Jones, Gaudy Atelier