Pomellato opens Paris exhibition on rebellion, women and jewelry history

Pomellato is bringing its archive into Paris with a first exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo, staging jewelry history as an act of creative rebellion. The show runs from June 24 to July 20, 2026, with free admission by reservation, and uses archival imagery, heritage pieces and contemporary collections to frame the Milan house as a force that challenged luxury’s old rules.

Founded in Milan in 1967, Pomellato is presenting the exhibition as a story of revolutions in style, craftsmanship, color, image and women. That framing matters in Paris, where the Palais de Tokyo describes itself as Europe’s largest center for contemporary creation. The venue gives the project more than a backdrop. It gives Pomellato institutional weight, turning a brand presentation into a cultural claim.

The exhibition is curated by Alba Cappellieri, Ph.D., head of Jewelry Design at the Politecnico di Milano, and it is built around the house’s visual language as much as its jewels. Pomellato’s exhibition materials name Helmut Newton, Herb Ritts, Michel Comte and Snowdon as part of the house’s photographic lineage, underscoring how closely the brand has tied its identity to fashion imagery. That dialogue between jewelry and photography is central to the show’s argument: Pomellato is not only selling objects, it is documenting an aesthetic position.

The Paris debut also extends a longer museum-style strategy. Pomellato staged exhibition-format projects in Tokyo in 2022 and opened a solo exhibition of Helmut Newton brand campaigns there in 2024, moves that suggest the house has been building a parallel history through exhibition design rather than relying on advertising alone. In Paris, that strategy becomes more explicit. The archival staging is meant to elevate the brand’s past from campaign material into cultural memory.

Pomellato’s women-focused platform, Pomellato for Women, launched in 2017 under CEO Sabina Belli, remains part of the story. The platform was created to promote female empowerment, independence, inclusivity and self-defined femininity, and the Palais de Tokyo says the exhibition centers on women’s independence and self-expression. In that context, the jewelry is doing more than decorating the body. It is being used to argue for a different kind of luxury, one built on authorship, image and the right to define elegance on its own terms.