Former Vancouver super middleweight boxer Michael Olajide Jr. dropped by Angel Vancouver on the weekend and bought an Angel hand-painted cat tank top and a Desigual dress called Valentin.

He has been in my store before and I asked him if we was in town visiting his mother. He was, he said.

Michael now lives in New York, where he runs a gym he co-founded called Aerospace NYC. His client list includes Brazilian fashion supermodel Adriana Lima, who has walked the catwalk wearing clothing from Desigual’s Spring-Summer 2014 collection, which just arrived at Angel.

Michael is a personal trainer who uses no fitness machines. Instead he uses shadow boxing and skip ropes to get models in “fighting shape” so they can fit into sample sizes for the fashion show runway. He’s been working with Adriana Lima for seven years. Here’s a video of Michael and Adriana demonstrating her workout:Here’s Adriana Lima in the Desigual fashion show in Barcelona, showing off the new spring-summer styles for 2014: Olajide was a highly ranked middleweight boxer until an injury left him legally blind in his right eye, ending his career.

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Angel Vancouver has the largest selection in Vancouver of the Desigual clothing line for men, women and kids. We ship worldwide.

We’re offering 10% off everything red in our store sale until the end of the Olympics on Feb. 23. We also have reduced prices of select Desigual winter 2013 items by 35%, and are offering 20% off all men’s Desigual winter jackets and sweaters.

If you’re looking for a custom hand-painted shirt, call Angel @ (604) 681-0947 or email jackie@angelpaint.com Click here to read about a shirt I painted for actress Dakota Fanning and click here to see the outfit I painted for Steven Tyler of Aerosmith.

Angel Vancouver is located at No. 2 Powell Street in the Gastown district of Vancouver, Canada. Our store is on the corner of Powell & Carrall Street in Maple Tree Square, which is where Vancouver began.  The photo above shows what my store looked like in 1886.

Desigual’s slogan is La Vida es Chula (Life is Cool)!

Since the Winter Olympics are in full swing, and Canadians are cheering on Canada’s hockey team, here is a video about how passionate Canadians are about hockey, our national sport:And here’s the Olympic Hockey Song by late Canadian folk singer-songwriter Stompin’ Tom Connors’, who died last year. The song celebrates how Canada beat the U.S. 4-3 in overtime to win the gold medal at 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver:At the Olympics in Sochi, there is a beer fridge that only opens when a Canadian passport is scanned by the fridge:Here’s how two crazy Canadians shipped a beer fridge 10,000 miles to their buddy living in Indonesia: