A black and white photo of a woman with long hair, wearing a dark jacket, sitting with her head turned to the side, resting her arm on her knee, and smiling slightly. She has a tattoo on her arm and wears rings on her fingers.

Gretchen Jones

A designer by trade, Gretchen Jones combines keen aesthetic insight and expression skills with polished business acumen. An award-winning fashion director with an MBA from the University of the Arts London and winner of Project Runway S8, she is now a business strategist and advising partner to founders and creative leaders around the world. Weird Specialty—Gretchen's advisory practice, studio, and salon—works exclusively with contemporary, values-driven creative entrepreneurs. She uses her skills to guide and inspire thinking differently—extinguishing bias, squashing subjectivity, and illuminating intention for the creative class that makes our world a beautiful, rewarding place to live.