A new shipment of Desigual has just arrived. It’s from the Spring-Summer 2017 Global Traveller collection, which includes new Exotic Denim. To see what arrived earlier this season, click here. Here are the newest new arrivals:

Berlin model Alyssa Cordes wearing Desigual from Fall-Winter 2016, which is on sale this week at Angel. Up to 50% off. Photos: Marlen Stahlhuth, indie-mag.com
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Angel is Vancouver’s first Desigual boutique, offering the latest styles for men, women & kids. We also have Desigual designed by Christian Lacroix.
We have the largest selection of the latest Desigual on the west coast of Canada. We ship worldwide, with free shipping in Canada for purchases of $200. Call (604) 681-0947.
All Desigual for kids is on sale at 20% off, the current Spring-Summer 2017 collection for men & women is 10% off and Angel has a sale on Desigual from previous seasons at 20% to 50% off.
Angel is located at No. 2 Powell Street in the Gastown district of Vancouver, Canada. We’re on the corner of Powell & Carrall Street in Maple Tree Square, where Vancouver began. The historic photo (left) shows what the location of my store looked like in 1886 (click on photo to enlarge).
Angel specializes in custom handpainted clothing. Most of our kids shirts (below) are by Justine Brown, of London England:
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In keeping with the Global Traveller collection, this is a song by Peter Gabriel, one of the champions of World Music, co-founding the WOMAD festival in 1982 and Real World Records in 1990. This is a live performance from 1993 in Modena, Italy. It introduced world audiences to Congo soukous star Papa Wembe and helped turn him into a pop star. Canadian avant-garde playwright/director Robert Lepage was involved in the concept staging for this Secret World Live tour, which had a square stage linked to a round stage by a conveyor belt. Peter & band made full use of the round stage here:
I always thought this 1982 song by Gabriel — his first No. 1 hit in the U.S. after going solo from Genesis — was about a monkey undergoing experimental electroshock therapy. Gabriel maintained it was a love song and the monkey was a metaphor for jealousy:
Gabriel hit the Big Time four years later:
Gabriel collaborated with experimental electronic performance artist Laurie Anderson on Excellent Birds (This is the Picture):
Laurie Anderson had a different idea of how the song should sound: