Angel Vancouver is offering 20% off everything in the store for the Gastown Shop Hop on Thursday Oct. 16. (Update: We’re continuing this sale all weekend, until Sunday Oct. 19.) We’re also offering 25% off select Desigual coats from spring 2014, including some by Paris fashion designer Christian Lacroix, who designs some of the Desigual clothing line, which is from Barcelona.

Angel just received a new shipment of Desigual for Fall-Winter 2014.

Angel also carries two other Barcelona fashion lines — Paramita & Smash! — as well as Italian clothing line Purple Jam. We’re offering 20% off everything in our store for this one-day-only sale on Oct. 16. But we’ll continue our 35% off select Desigual items.

This Desigual LUCIA dress ($319) was designed by Christian Lacroix, which just arrived at Angel. It’s part of Desigual’s Fall-Winter 2014 collection, now at Angel Vancouver

Here’s a sampling of what we’ll have on sale this weekend:

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Angel Vancouver has the largest selection of Desigual  for men, women and kids on Canada’s West Coast. We ship worldwide.

Desigual is designed in Barcelona and produces 1,000 new pieces every season. The company was founded in 1984 when owner Thomas Meyer started painting T-shirts on the Spanish island of Ibiza.

If you’re looking for a custom hand-painted Angel shirt, call (604) 681-0947 or email me: jackie@angelpaint.com

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, where Vancouver began.  The photo above shows what my store looked like in 1886.

Today’s music is a quintet of Angel songs, starting with Angel in Blue Jeans by Train:This is Angel of the Morning by Chrissie Hynde and the Pretenders:Here’s Angel in Blue by the J. Geils Band:This is Vancouver’s Sarah McLachlan singing Angel:And finally, here’s Steven Tyler and Aerosmith performing a rare acoustic version in the studio of their song, Angel, which was recorded a block from my store at Bryan Adams‘ Warehouse Studio:Earlier this year, I  was walking by Bryan Adams recording studio and saw AC/DC’s equipment being loaded on a truck: