Rio Girl's Mission
To partner with the best retail stores offering consumers exceptional and timely fashion jewelry and accessories from Brazil.  To provide the highest level of service to our retail partners using sales integrity, consistency, supply chain efficiency, and quality products as key performance indicators, but our customers’ feedback is the true gauge.To always do our best and have fun doing it.

Rio Girl - The Company
Rio Girl Bijoux and Fashion Accessories offers a unique means for providing the finest bijoux jewelry made in Brazil.  Twice a year, Rio Girl sets off for Brazil to review the latest handmade styles from bijoux designers in Brazil.  From those who fit Rio Girl’s stringent requirements for fashion, quality, service and value, a partnership is formed.  Rio Girl has an ever-revolving on-hand inventory to stay at the forefront of style trends.  Its designers provide Rio Girl with the latest designs and stand ready for special orders from retail customers.

Commitment to its Retail Customers
Rio Girl strives to create long-term relationships with its retail customers.  As such it is committed to serving their individual needs.  Rio Girl’s Brazilian designers will modify individual pieces to meet consumer demand.  If there is a piece that would be ideal in a different stone or by modifying the design, Rio Girl will work with its retail customers you to create a one-of-a-kind look. For those favorite pieces, Rio Girl can make exclusivity arrangements to ensure there are not two locations selling the same jewelry.Rio Girl will also take specialty requests on its semi-annual “trips” and offer previews of the pieces it reviews providing a unique opportunity for retail customers to hand-select the designs and designers that best fit their customers’ desires. 

Commitment to a Better World
Rio Girl contributes 5% of its proceeds to helping underprivileged children in Brazil.  With such a high percentage of families under the poverty line, Rio Girl hopes to give less fortunate a chance to realize dreams similar to our own “Rio Girl”.

 

The Rio Girl Biography
Renata Ballati is “Rio Girl”.  She is a carioca at heart (Rio de Janeiro native), though she grew up in Logoa Santa, a small town in the state of Minas Gerais just outside the bustling city of Belo Horizonte.  Minas Gerais is famous for its semi-precious stones and outstanding fashion jewelry makers.  This likely was the foundation for her eye for spectacular handmade jewelry.

Renata has had a brilliant life to date, building, with each step, the foundation necessary to make Rio Girl an enormous success.  Unsatisfied with the challenges of unemployment and narrow

perspectives that is typical in Brazil’s impoverished small towns, Renata set out at the ripe young age of 17 to make a better life for herself and to help her family out of a difficult setting.  Soon thereafter, Renata found herself living in Italy, learning the language and opening her mind to the world.  Upon her return, she moved to Rio de Janeiro with little more than what her pockets could hold.  With the guidance from a dear and wise friend, she was given direction for surviving in the “Marvelous City” and set off to fend for herself.  With a passion for dance she worked her way into one of the premier Brazilian dance reviews with the renowned dance choreographer and producer, Sargentelli.  At 23, Renata's dreams were already in motion.  She used her dance exposure to launch a number of modeling and acting stints in Rio, until one fateful day on Copacabana Beach in October 1999 when a bumbling American asked her to watch his stuff so he could take a swim.  Three years later, she was walking down the aisle and living in Oakland, California. 

With a love for the beauty and fashion industry and her third language partially under her belt, Renata was determined to find her niche.  On her first try (in a foreign language mind you), Renata became a California licensed esthetician and worked for one of the premier health spas in the United States, The Claremont Spa & Resort.  Soon thereafter, she opened her own skin care studio.  However, this wasn't ultimately in line with her and her family's life goals.  Then, one typically beautiful day in Rio de Janeiro walking through a popular handcraft street fair, Renata had a revelation:  The fabulous bijoux jewelry made in her homeland just isn’t available in the United States.  She had seen the Chinese, Thai and African imports typically sold in U.S. clothing boutiques and it didn't take a PHD to recognize the fashion sense of the Brazilians coupled with their high quality craftsmanship would be highly valued in the United States.  And, thus began Rio Girl, a company dedicated to representing the finest in fashion jewelry from Brazil.