Pomellato

Marie-Laure Cérède spent twenty-five years moving between Cartier, Harry Winston and Cartier again before Chanel announced on 9 June 2026 that she would lead its jewellery creation studio from October — the latest beat in a generation-long pattern of place vendôme jewellery talent circulating between five or six addresses. Her appointment at Chanel Joaillerie is not a hire from outside the square. It is a transfer within it: a designer trained in the workshops above 13 Rue de la Paix, seasoned at a New York house owned by Swatch Group, then returned to Cartier for a decade, now crossing the Rue de Castiglione to 18 Place Vendôme. The Place Vendôme jewellery talent market is small — a few dozen specialists in total — and the same names keep reappearing in different windows along the arcade. ...

Kering put Jean-Marc Duplaix in charge of a new jewellery division on 17 March 2026 and gave him four houses, €935 million in 2025 revenue, and one job: catch Cartier. The Kering jewellery division, announced on 16–17 March 2026, consolidates Boucheron, Pomellato, Dodo and Qeelin under a single P&L for the first time, with Group COO Jean-Marc Duplaix appointed CEO of the new structure while keeping his COO duties. Read against the comparator set — Richemont’s Cartier and Van Cleef & Arpels, LVMH’s Tiffany & Co. and Bulgari — the move is less a brand reorganisation than the second leg of Luca de Meo’s ReconKering plan: turn a sub-billion-euro spread of acquired jewellers into a category platform that can be measured against the two groups that already won the last cycle. ...