WAIWAI Rio

NOVA IGUAÇU, 
Brazil
WAIWAIRIO.COM

• Booth: 418

Born in Rio de Janeiro in 2015 by the hands of designer Leo Neves, the brand evokes the dreamlike luxury of a Brazil that lives in a solar state, where tradition and modernity intertwine with lightness and poetry. Each creation is an ode to the handmade. An advocate of low fashion, WAIWAI RIO favors 100% local production, connecting local expertise to the possibilities of contemporary design.

 Press Releases

• Handmade in Rio for a worldwide endless summer (Jul 14, 2026)

  Born in Rio de Janeiro in 2015 by the hands of designer Leo Neves, the brand evokes the dreamlike luxury of a Brazil that lives in a solar state, where tradition and modernity intertwine with lightness and poetry.
  Each creation is an ode to the handmade. An advocate of slow fashion, WAIWAI RIO favors 100% local production, connecting local expertise to the possibilities of contemporary design.

• WAIWAI Rio (Jul 14, 2026)

  WAIWAI RIO bags are the synthesis  of the entire process. Objects that carry  within them the construction of gesture,  the choice of material and the rigor of  execution. Each piece reveals the meeting  between structure and lightness, tradition  and contemporaneity. They do not follow  trends — they affirm a permanence.
  They are made to exist in time,  accompanying the rhythm of those who  carry them, moving through seasons  without losing their meaning.

• Process (Jul 14, 2026)

  Each piece begins long before its form.
  It is born from the choice of material, the  understanding of gesture, the time needed
  for each step to unfold as it should.
  At WAIWAI RIO, making is guided by  processes that demand precision and
  technical mastery. Wood is sculpted, rattan  is woven by hand, surfaces are polished,
  finishes are adjusted one by one.
  Each component travels its own path before  becoming part of a whole. Production is
  local, guided by hands that carry knowledge and repetition. Each piece is the result of
  a continuous process of refinement, where form, material and execution meet in
  balance. Each step follows its own time.

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