Merry Christmas to all our great customers! Angel was closed for Christmas Day but we’ll be open at 11 a.m. on Boxing Day (Dec. 26) for our biggest sale of the year: 25% off everything from Desigual: Dresses, coats, women’s boots, men’s shirts, T-shirts, pants, sweaters & jackets. And all Desigual kids wear.

You’ll also find discounts of up to 35% on select Desigual dresses and tops. The sale continues until New Year’s Eve.

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

We also have Desigual rain boots on sale at 30% off, plus Desigual scarves, belts, purses/bags, woollen winter hats, gloves,  leggings and tights and Desigual umbrellas. If you buy $150 worth of Desigual, we’ll give you a free Desigual umbrella.

Angel has dozens of dresses on sale for the holiday party season, from a glittering gold number  to a classic black-and-white, both designed by Christian Lacroix.

And those white dots floating down the screen are snow, which we might get by Friday.

In a few weeks, we’ll start getting the first of our order for Spring 2015. Here’s a preview:………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

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 video is Jingle Bell Rock by Bobby Helms from 1957: And here is Ella Fitzgerald singing What Are you Doing New Year’s Eve:Here’s remembering Joe Cocker, who died this week. This song was his first hit in 1968:This is a live version of the Wayne Carson song, The Letter, originally recorded by The Box Tops, performed here during the Mad Dogs & Englishmen tour in 1970:This is Cocker’s funky Woman to Woman:The song’s opening piano riff and horn jab became one of the most sampled in hip-hop history: