Angel is having a Spring-into-Easter sale this weekend and next week, ending on Easter Monday. We’re offering 10% off all Desigual clothing from the Spring-Summer 2015, which just arrived this week and includes some classy jackets for spring, including a yellow one with coloured sleeves designed by Christian Lacroix. Angel is also offering 20% off Desigual for kids and 25% off all Desigual winter coats from the Fall-Winter 2014 collection.

Angel Vancouver has the largest selection of Desigual in western Canada. We carry Desigual for men, women and kids. Angel also specializes in hand-painted one-of-a-kind clothing. We ship worldwide.

This Desigual spring coat called NATI is lightweight with coloured sleeves designed by Christian Lacroix. $304.

This 100% cotton light summer Desigual jacket is called BRIGO. $249. Spring-Summer 2015

New Arrival: Angel has this Desigual BRIGO coat (left) from the Spring-Summer 2015 collection.

Close-up of the top button of the BRIGO coat from the Spring-Summer 2015 collection.

Desigual ASHA dress by Christian Lacroix. $184. This is a perfect match for the NATASHA jacket (below) by Lacroix.

Desigual NATASHA jacket designed by Christian Lacroix. $249. Spring-Summer 2015

Below are photos of some of the new Desigual spring items we have in stock:

This Mexican-inspired NATASHA jacket arrived this week. Designed by Christian Lacroix for Desigual Spring-Summer 2015. It’s $249. The Desigual AMY skirt, $164, is also designed by Lacroix.

Desigual NADINE t-shirt. $74. Spring-Summer 2015.

Desigual ONE blazer. $229.

Desigual CANETO dress for girls. $64. Spring-Summer 2015.

New Arrival: Desigual EXPLORER unstructured cotton jacket, $229, with PEDRETE shirt. Spring-Summer 2015.

New Arrival: Desigual RUPERT unstructured blue jacket for men. $199. Spring-Summer 2015 collection.

Desigual FRUTAS Y LETRAS summer short-sleeved shit. $97. Spring-Summer 2015.

Desigual MARC T-shirt. $66. Spring-Summer 2015.

Desigual FIRMIN shirt. $69. Spring-Summer 2015

Desigual MIMOSA sandals (left) and MOJITO sandals (right). Both are $69. We have a bunch of new Desigual sandals and flip-flops from the Spring-Summer 2015 collection.

Desigual slip-on shoe from the Spring-Summer 2015 collection, now at Angel

Angel has this purse and a dozen others from the Spring-Summer 2015 collection.

Desigual ELIAS denim shorts. $94.

Desigual MANOLOS WAY shirt. Spring-Summer 2015

Desigual AYESELOLAIL shirt. $99. Spring-Summer 2015 collection, now at Angel Vancouver in Gastown.

Desigual TONY t-shirt. $84, Spring-Summer 2015

Desigual GUARISM cotton shorts. $104. Spring-Summer 2015

Desigual ROCK CAN ROLL T-shirt. $64. Spring-Summer 2015.

Desigual ROLL T-shirt. $74. Spring-Summer 2015.

Desigual’s motto: La Vida es Chula (translated from Spanish: Life is Cool!)

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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 video is Rude, a song by Canadian reggae fusion band Magic! The band dropped into Angel on Friday and the lead singer bought a Desigual dress for his girlfriend. I didn’t recognize them but the singer, Nasri Atweh, said I probably heard them on the radio — he sang the chorus of Rude to jog my memory. Magic! is the opening act on Sunday March 29/15 for Maroon 5 at Rogers Arena:And here’s Sugar, a new song by Maroon 5. The video was shot by David Dobkin, who directed the 2005 film Wedding Crashers. Dobkin suggested to Maroon 5 lead singer/songwriter Adam Levine to shoot the band playing at a number of weddings on a single day across Los Angeles — only the grooms knew who the wedding crasher band would be:And in memory of Samuel Charters, who died last week, here’s the song that inspired him to write The Country Blues, a seminal book written in the 1950s that chronicled the rural blues of America, which later inspired the early career of Bob Dylan and led to such bands as The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Them and the Allman Brothers resurrecting country blues standards, revitalizing the careers of such blues musicians as Texas guitarist Lightnin’ Hopkins and countless others:Here’s British guitarist Eric Clapton‘s unplugged version of the same tune from 1992:And finally, here’s a classic one-chord country blues song, Smokestack Lightnin’, which had been performed since the 1930s by Chester Burnett, better known as Howlin’ Wolf. This is a rare 1964 performance from the American Folk Blues Festival tour of Europe produced by German promoters Horst Lippmann and Fritz Rau: