It's as if in an instant they'd been catapulted between rows of fruit-bearing trees : 22,500 in total, brimming with oranges that smell of the sun. All around, women's songs, ancient nursery rhymes set to music by powerful voices. A single melody and that scent that becomes fruit, that is light.

Oranges resting on colorful fabrics, oranges passed from basket to basket. Women for women, hardworking hands.

In the evening, the sun sets over that patch of Africa, and the orange groves of Shashe, in the deep south of Zimbabwe, are like drops of water: the most precious resource that, from the Zambezi River, nourishes an area of ​​over 100 hectares , scorched by the sun. A drip-and-drip system for plants that take years to grow and bear their first fruits. Life cycles. Silent time in the vastness of a land that is the future, a project. It is Africa.

Three women imagine themselves among those rows. They feel the warmth of the fruit, the breeze of that gentle water caressing the plants, the dream and hope of women.

ACQUA is therefore the name of a limited edition capsule for Zimbabwe , a project by Dada Arrigoni and Crida, a brand owned by Cristina Parodi and Daniela Palazzi , which was born from all this: the creativity of three women is placed at the service of Cesvi to donate a part of the proceeds of the special collection to the female community active in the orange groves, started in 2012 and still promoted today by the international non-profit organization.

A limited-edition jewelry capsule collection from the Happy Frog collection has been created: a ring, a bracelet, and a pair of earrings in aquamarine, the same color as the dress designed by Cristina Parodi and Daniela Palazzi. Their best-selling Taormina long dress is back in a limited edition in a precious aquamarine chiffon with silver thread.

187 women in the fields of Zimbabwe, their land.
Three women in Bergamo. Tenacious and dreamy.
A project that speaks of female empowerment and timeless beauty.
Women for women. Hands that cultivate, that draw, that sew. Hands in motion. Hands that dance in the world. "We are the spokes of a single wheel," writes Neruda in his Ode to the Orange . So simple and sincere, just like water, "eternal, deep sap that makes the fields ripen," wrote García Lorca. The wonder of Nature and women of action.

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