We have some great new tops, hoodie shirts for boys and tops and dresses for girls at Angel from Desigual’s fall-winter 2013 line. We also have pants-and-tops sets for babies as well (see photos below)
Angel Vancouver has the largest selection of Desigual clothing in Vancouver for men, women and kids. Click here to have a look at some of Desigual’s spring/summer 2013 collection we still have in stock at our store.
Our 35 percent-off sale continues on select Desigual items to celebrate Angel’s 35th year in business.
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, which is where Vancouver began. The photo to the left shows what my store looked like in 1886.
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Desigual’s slogan this season is La Vida es Chula (Life is Cool)!
And today’s video is the Gastown Rap, featuring Joel Ashton McCarthy and Jeremy Mamisao, with my store is featured in the background of the opening Gastown scene:
This may be one of the hottest days of the year in Vancouver, and we realize you might be cool to the idea until fall, but we decided to give you a head’s up — a number of new Desigual men’s winter coats have arrived at our store, Angel Vancouver.
We have an orange down coat called Zurtz, which has a removable grey-cotton hoodie liner, and a military-green cotton jacket called Military, which has a cool neon yellow fibre-filled hoodie liner (see photos below).
We also have two new men’s blazers and a number of new men’s shirts that are part of the Desigual fall-winter 2013 collection.
Stay tuned and we’ll post more photos of Desigual for kids and women from the fall line.
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AngelVancouver has the largest selection of Desigual clothing in Vancouver for men, women and kids. Click here to have a look at some of Desigual’s spring/summer 2013 collection we still have in stock at our store.
Our 35 percent-off sale continues on select Desigual items to celebrate Angel’s 35th year in business.
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, which is where Vancouver began. The photo to the left shows what my store looked like in 1886.
Click on angelvancouver at the top of page to see earlier posts.
Desigual’s slogan this season is La Vida es Chula (Life is Cool)!
Today’s video is by Canadian band Finger Eleven, singing Ain’t No Sunshine with Daryl Hall (of Hall & Oates), sitting outside his home:
Finger Eleven’s musical style is more like this:
And here’s the 1971 original of Ain’t No Sunshine by Bill Withers, whose third verse repeats “I know” 26 times. It was a huge hit for Withers, who at the time was working in a toilet seat factory. It won best R&B song in 1972:
We’ve just received an early shipment of the Desigual fall-winter 2013 line, including some great new pieces for men: a sweater-jacket called Kanit, a blazer called Ame Wool, a military-green cotton jacket called Military, which has a cool neon yellow fibre-filled hoodie liner, a down jacket called Zurtz and a new polo shirt called Polo Marcos. We also have a suave pair of pants with suspenders called Diezs.
We’ll be posting more photos in the days ahead, including new arrivals for women & kids.
AngelVancouver has the largest selection of Desigual clothing in Vancouver for men, women and kids. Click here to have a look at some of Desigual’s spring/summer 2013 collection we still have in stock at our store.
Our 35 percent-off sale continues on select Desigual items to celebrate Angel’s 35th year in business.
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, which is where Vancouver began. The photo to the left shows what my store looked like in 1886.
Click on angelvancouver at the top of page to see earlier posts.
Desigual’s slogan this season is La Vida es Chula (Life is Cool)!
Today’s video is by Billy Cowsill and his Vancouver band, The Blue Shadows, performing in 1993 on a flatbed truck in front of the long-gone Vancouver record store A&B Sound. Billy also had been a member of Vancouver band Billy Mitchell’s Train Wreck and Blue Northern before moving to Calgary and forming the Co-Dependents. Before Billy died in 2006, he recorded this John Lennon song, Love (and here is Lennon’s version for comparison).
Billy was perhaps best known as a teenage member of the 1960s family band the Cowsills, which had two number one hits, including Hair, and performed on numerous TV shows, including Ed Sullivan and Johnny Cash. The Cowsills inspired the The Partridge Family TV show.Here is an interview with Billy Cowsill from 1994, talking about his formative years with The Cowsills:
Here are five new designs by Paris couturier Christian Lacroix that just arrived as part of Desigual‘s fall-winter 2013 line:
Angel Vancouver just received a second shipment of the Desigual fall-winter collection, and we’ll be posting more photos in the days ahead, including new arrivals for men.
Angel Vancouver has the largest selection of Desigual clothing in Vancouver for men, women and kids. Click here to have a look at some of Desigual’s spring/summer 2013 collection we still have in stock at our store.
Our 35 percent-off sale continues on select Desigual items to celebrate Angel’s 35th year in business.
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, which is where Vancouver began. The photo to the left shows what my store looked like in 1886.
And here’s today’s video by Canadian mezzo-soprano rocker Serena Ryder, live from CBC radio’s Studio Q:
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Desigual’s slogan this season is La Vida es Chula (Life is Cool)!
During an earlier post about film directorTim Burton, I mentioned that I had a story to tell about a former classmate at Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, which Terry Gilliam & I attended in the 1960s.
Here is the story as it appeared in the Chouinard Foundation magazine in January 2002; it was told by Chouinard art instructor Watson Cross to his son-in-law:
Sometime in the early 1960s, in one of Watson’s drawing classes, one of his more beatniky appearing students just didn’t seem to have the slightest interest in drawing.
Missed classes, didn’t do homework assignments, put out sub-minimal effort when he attended, the usual slacking.
At one point, when it was fairly clear that Terry [Gilliam] was headed for a flunk-out, Watson sat down to talk to him.
Terry said he didn’t like drawing and really didn’t care if he could draw or not. Telling that to someone who thought drawing was on par with speaking caused Watson to feel indignation boiling inside – it was like telling a motorcycle cop the rules of the road didn’t apply because they were boring.
Watson tried to keep his cool and asked Terry how he planned to complete the semester. This was a “foundation” class and a large project was due at the end of the semester, so what was he planning to do for it?
I dunno, was the answer. After a few dead ends, Watson finally insisted that Terry do something or be flunked – was there anything he would want to do?
Probably in defiance that he would never get away with it, he piped up, “I wanna make a film.” Again, Watson felt his blood boiling. This was not a film class.
“A film, huh? What kind of film?” Watson asked.
“I dunno,” was the reply
At this point, Watson felt like he had the advantage, the better poker hand. “Okay, I’ll tell you what,” the instructor said, “I’ll excuse you from the remainder of the class and let you make a film for your final project. But your entire class grade will ride on your film. The class will decide if it is worth your missing all the studio, which they had to complete, okay?”
“Okay, I guess so.” Terry sheepishly departed. Watson had no idea whether he would ever see him again. And he didn’t, until the end of the semester.
On that final day, a bleary-eyed Terry straggled in late, passing the rows of student projects and portfolios, with his scraggly little roll of 8mm film.
The skeptical class waited while he threaded the rickety projector, pulled up the screen and darkened the room. His movie began… a combination of animated cutout shapes and hand-drawn forms and characters.
In a nutshell, the class loved the film – they insisted on seeing it again and again. Terry had clearly worked his ass off and had come up with an imaginative, fun project, winning everyone over, particularly the teacher.
Afterwards they talked. Watson asked him what he was planning to do next and Terry said he wasn’t sure if the school was behind him – he was thinking of going to London “where things are happening.”
Watson told him he had a lot of talent that he should put to use, then wished him luck.
Terry Gilliam did eventually end up in London. By virtue of fate he picked the right pub on the right night and hooked up with five little-known comedians who called themselves Monty Python and who had a deal for a weekly television series.
Terry Gilliam’s outrageous, absurdist cut-out animations for that series were to become legend. He has since graduated to such films as Brazil, TheFisher King and Twelve Monkeys.
Watson was forever proud of that story. By challenging a directionless student to excel at something of his own choosing was to Watson the spark that gave Gilliam confidence in his abilities, an important part of the essence of the Chouinard experience.
(Used by permission of Dave Tourje, Director of The Chouinard Foundation, via Thornfield Productions, LLC.)
Here is old clip of Gilliam, from the Monty Python Museum, demonstrating his cut-out animation process for Monty Python’s ‘s Flying Circus:
Click here to see the Orwellian world Gilliam went on to create for his movie Brazil.
And here’s a famous Monty Python sketch about a hairdresser who really wanted to be a lumberjack in British Columbia — singing his heart out, backed by a chorus of Mounties:
 After leaving Chouinard, I went on to open my store, Angel Vancouver, in 1978. Angel specializes in hand-painted clothing. We are continuing our 35 percent-off sale this week on select Desigual clothing to celebrate our store’s 35th year in business.
We also have new arrivals for women and kids of Desigual fall-winter 2013 clothing, with more expected next month. Angel has the largest selection of Desigual in Vancouver for men, women and kids.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, which is where Vancouver began. This historical photo shows the location of my store in 1886.
Click on angelvancouver at the top of page to see earlier posts.
Desigual is from Barcelona. Its slogan this season is La Vida es Chula (Life is Cool)!
There used to be water towers on buildings throughout Gastown, but there’s only one left. It’s on the Koret building and the $1-million suite with the water tower roof deck is currently for sale.
This archival photo from the early 1900s shows the corner of Richards & Hastings in Vancouver. Click to enlarge the image to see the water towers on top of Gastown buildings at the upper left.
Below are some photos of a party inside a New York water tower, which looks pretty cool. You can only fit about a dozen people in the space, and the band has to perform on a little platform. The New York Times story is here about what is possibly the world’s tiniest nightclub.
Further down is a video by Steve Earle, singing Invisible from his new album, the Low Highway. New York water towers can be seen in the background during his rooftop performance…
Steve Earle is performing Saturday night (July 20) at the Vancouver Folk Music Festival with his band, The Dukes, and will be followed by The Cat Empire, a great jazz-reggae-ska-funk-latin-gypsy-hip-hop band from Australia that I first saw when they performed in Maple Tree Square in Gastown during the Vancouver jazz festival a few years ago. Say Hello to the Cat Empire:And if you see the Cat Empire, you’ll need Two Shoes for dancing:
Angel Vancouver has the largest selection of Desigual clothing in Vancouver for men, women and kids. Click here to have a look at some of Desigual’s spring/summer 2013 collection we have in stock at our store.
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, which is where Vancouver began. The photo to the left shows what my store looked like in 1886.
Click on angelvancouver at the top of page to see earlier posts.
Desigual’s slogan this season is La Vida es Chula (Life is Cool)!
Angel is celebrating our 35th year in business. I started painting T-shirts in 1978; here are the most recent ones, now at my store:
Angelvancouver still has new arrivals from the Desigual summer 2013 line. And we’ve just received our first shipment of Desigual’s fall-winter 2013 collection, with more expected next month.
Angel Vancouver has the largest selection of Desigual clothing in Vancouver for men, women and kids. Click here to have a look at more of Desigual’s spring/summer 2013 collection we have in stock at our store.
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, which is where Vancouver began. This historical photo shows the location of my store in 1886.
Click on angelvancouver at the top of page to see earlier posts.
Desigual’s slogan this season is La Vida es Chula (Life is Cool)!
Every time I paint a giraffe, I think of this short film, 5 metres 80, by French director Nicolas Deveaux:
Here we are in the middle of summer and Desigual unveiled Tuesday its new line for spring-summer of 2014 in Barcelona. This 26-minute video shows next year’s styles:
The video features Brazilian supermodel Adriana Lima (left).
Angel Vancouver still has new arrivals from the Desigual summer 2013 line. And we’ve just received our first shipment from Desigual’s fall-winter 2013 collection, and we’ll have more arriving next month (August).
We have the largest selection of Desigual clothing in Vancouver for men, women and kids. Click here to have a look at more of Desigual’s spring/summer 2013 collection we have in stock at our store.
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, which is where Vancouver began. The photo to the left shows how my store, which is 0n the corner, looked like in 1886.
Click on angelvancouver at the top of page to see earlier posts.
Desigual’s slogan this season is La Vida es Chula (Life is Cool)!
This is the Bleached Me men’s shirt by Desigual, one of the coolest shirts ever made.
We’ve just got an early shipment of Desigual for men for fall-winter 2013, including a new coat called “Fonk” with a zip-out wool lining, a denim shirt called Stars Spangled and a polo called Marbello (see photos below). We’ll have more from Desigual’s men’s line arriving next month.
Angel Vancouver has the largest selection of Desigual clothing in Vancouver for men, women and kids. Click here to have a look at more of Desigual’s spring/summer 2013 collection we have in stock at our store.
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, which is where Vancouver began. The photo above, taken in 1886, shows the location of our store.
The former Governor-General of Canada, Michaelle Jean, popped into Angel Vancouver this weekend while in Gastown. She bought one of my hand-painted items for a family member — I can’t say what it was because it might be a surprise gift.
Mme. Jean is a beautiful woman who was dressed in a blue jacket from Ottawa, much like the one she is wearing in the photo at left. She obviously has great taste. She was Canada’s Governor General from 2005 to 2010. She is currently UNESCO Special Envoy for Haiti. She was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and immigrated to Canada with her family in 1968, fleeing a dictatorial regime.
A former journalist who had her own TV show in Quebec, she spent her early career actively involved in establishing a network of emergency shelters for battered women in Quebec. She also runs the Foundation Michaelle Jean, whose aim is to “equip disadvantaged youth with the tools and drive to ignite change in their communities through the arts.”
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, which is where Vancouver began. The photo above, taken in 1886, shows the location of our store.
Click on angelvancouver at the top of page to see earlier posts.
Desigual’s slogan this season is La Vida es Chula (Life is Cool)!
Angel Vancouver has the largest selection of Desigual clothing in Vancouver for men, women and kids. Click here to have a look at some of Desigual’s spring/summer 2013 collection we still have in stock at our store.
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, which is where Vancouver began. The photo to the left shows what my store looked like in 1886.
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