Angel is closing for 10 days starting Sunday Sept. 20.

We’re going to spend the time painting, reorganizing and redecorating our store.

When we reopen Ocr. 1, we’re hoping customers will say: “Wow, it looks fabulous!”

Angel began almost 40 years ago as a handpainted clothing store on West 4th Avenue in Vancouver, later moving to Robson for 18 years and to our current Gastown in 1998.

Four years ago, we started carrying the Barcelona-based Desigual clothing line. Last year, we were invited to Desigual’s headquarters on Barceloneta Beach to drink some sangria and discuss giving our store more of a Desigual look.

We’ve agreed to allow Desigual to do a makeover of Angel. We’re hoping our regular customers will love it, and we’re looking forward to welcoming new customers from around the world — we love happy customers.

And for those of you who already know Desigual, you know the company’s battle cry is La Vida es Chula — Spanish translation: Life is Cool!

We’re excited to unveil the new Angel in 10 days, with some exciting events and surprises ahead.

If there is something you need or want during this period, please phone Jackie at (604) 681-0947 or email me at jackie@angelpaint.com

We can also still take orders online and ship to you. We ship worldwide, including Australia and New Zealand.

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Angel Vancouver has the largest selection of Desigual in Western Canada. We have the Desigual collections for men, women and kids. (Click on the buttons at the top of this page to see the collections.)

We also carry Desigual shoes, sandals and flip-flops, plus Desigual towels and Desigual travel kits. And we’ll have new stock from the Fall-Winter 2015 collection when we reopen, so stayed tuned.

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 is by Vancouver singer-songwriter Tobias Jesso Jr., whose first record comes out next spring; he’ll play Vancouver’s Rickshaw Theatre on Oct. 3:This is a demo of his song True Love:And here’s a new song, Alive, that Tobias co-wrote with Sia and Adele, just released today (Sept. 24, 2015):