March 6, 2026
Pomellato presents “The Price Of Freedom”
Ms. Monaghan is the first to use her voice in the video, with every other talent following suit. The film follows a choral format, with the collective completing each other’s sentences as sequences cut between multiple participants, who together uplift awareness of how financial constraints place publicly invisible control over women.
Economic abuse, while lacking a physical component, is a form of violence that removes autonomy from relationships, requiring that the woman be dependent on her partner. To identify these overarching signs of economic abuse, the jeweler commissioned research from the Italian university SDA Bocconi School of Management.
In turn, Pomellato and its representatives position financial monitoring or restriction, exploitation of women’s income and sabotage of personal work and time as the core tenets of the prevalent behavior in the film. Together, the voices speak on how economic support can lead to full dependence, how supposed care transforms into full control, as well as stating that financial constraints make other forms of abuse much more difficult to escape.
[caption id="attachment_432299" align="alignnone" width="465"] According to American nonprofit National Network to End Domestic Violence, economic abuse occurs in 99 percent of domestic violence cases. Image courtesy of Pomellato[/caption]
To further its goal of raising awareness, the maison is also continuing its ongoing partnerships with Casa di Accoglienza delle Donne Maltrattate, which is Milan's first anti-violence center for women, and the Los Angeles-based not-for-profit organization FreeFrom. The latter institution seeks to provide long-term financial security to domestic violence survivors.
Powerful messaging
Pomellato for Women has been active since 2017, its launch coinciding with the 50th an
