Canadian model Chantelle Winnie  (her real name: Chantelle Young-Brown) is living her dream as Desigual’s brand ambassador for the Spring-Summer 2015 collection. The Barcelona-based brand first used her for a photo shoot to highlight its black-and-white collection last year, designed by Christian Lacroix:She was such a hit, Desigual decided to make her the face for its new collection this season:In a new Desigual video this week, Chantelle explains how she was ridiculed and bullied as a child because of her rare skin condition, called vitiligo:She once said: “A lot of people have a story or a background, but mine is painted on my body.” She first made a video about her skin condition in 2011 called Vitiligo: A Skin Condition, Not a Life Changer:She now describes herself as a “vitiligo spokesmodel.” Pretty unique.

Canadian model Chantelle Winnie is the brand ambassador this year for the Barcelona-based Desigual clothing line

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

We’re having a 10% off sale until Sunday on Desigual sandals, shoes and flip-flops for Spring-Summer 2015. And if you spend $200, we’ll take off 10%.

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 the location of my store looked like in 1886.

Today’s music video is I Put a Spell on You performed by Hozier and Annie Lennox:Hozier, an Irishman, is best known for his song Take Me to Church. Irishwoman Sinead O’Connor also released a song last year called Take Me to Church: I Put a Spell on You, a 1956 song by Screamin’ Jay Hawkins. The original was featured in  Jim Jarmusch‘s 1984 film, Stranger Than Paradise, which stars jazz musician John Lurie, who was in a band called The Lounge Lizards, former Sonic Youth drummer-turned-actor Richard Edson, and Hungarian-born actress Eszter Balint:Jarmusch’s 1989 film Mystery Train featured Screamin’ Jay Hawkins as the night desk clerk in a flophouse hotel in Memphis, visited by a Japanese couple on a pilgrimage to the home of Elvis; the end of this 10-minute clip has Joe Strummer (of The Clash) shooting the character played by Steve Buscemi: