History Series / Velvet

* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Ana gets an ImportantHaircut when she decides to stop living meekly and adopt a more serious image as she works to become a fashion designer. Cristina starts wearing PeekABangs after she learns the truth about Ana and Alberto and does her FaceHeelTurn. Clara and Patricia also change hairstyles, but theirs reflect the changing fashions.

* FashionDesigner: A career as a successful fashion designer is one of the things Ana wants most. The other being [[OneTrueLove Alberto]].
* TheFashionista: Multiple characters, unsurprisingly as the show is set at a high-end fashion house.
* FashionShow: At least once a season.

* DugInDeeper: What started as an impulsive lie to make Rita jealous grew into a full engagement between Pedro and Rosa-Maria.

The show primarily focuses on the [[Main/StarCrossedLovers love story]] of Alberto Márquez (Miguel Ángel Silvestre), the heir to Galerías Velvet, one of the most prestigious fashion houses in late 1950s Madrid; and Ana Ribera (Paula Echevarría), who works as a seamstress there. As Alberto struggles to maintain Velvet's prestige and profitability, Ana works to make her mark as a fashion designer in her own right. The show also focuses on the personal lives of Velvet's other employees, including Alberto's friend and business partner, Mateo Ruiz (Javier Rey); Alberto's scheming half-sister Patricia Márquez (Miriam Giovanelli); sisters Rita and Clara Montesinos (Cecilia Freire and Marta Hazas); managers Blanca Soto (Aitana Sánchez-Gijón) and Emilio López (José Sacristán), the latter of whom is also also Ana's uncle; designer Raúl de la Riva (Asier Etxeandia); and PluckyComicRelief Pedro Infantes (Adrián Lastra) and, later, his cousin Jonás (Llorenç González).

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Since the focus of the show is [[Main/StarCrossedLovers Alberto and Ana's love story]], it's very easy to forget it's set in ''very'' conservative Francoist Spain.

* TheFashionista: Multiple characters, unsurprisingly as the show is set at a high-end fashion house.
* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: Clara and Rita are textbook examples.
* TheMole: [[spoiler:Estaban. Poor Blanca.]]
* TheOneThatGotAway: [[spoiler:Isabel, for Emilio although they are briefly reunited]].

* TheTopicOfCancer: [[spoiler:Rita is diagnosed with breast cancer in season 4.]]

The show primarily focuses on the [[Main/StarCrossedLovers love story]] of Alberto Márquez (Miguel Ángel Silvestre), the heir to Galerías Velvet, one of the most prestigious fashion houses in late 1950s Madrid; and Ana Ribera (Paula Echevarría), who works as a seamstress there. As Alberto struggles to maintain Velvet's prestige and profitability, Ana works to make her mark as a fashion designer in her own right. The show also focuses on the personal lives of Velvet's other employees, including Alberto's friend and business partner, Mateo Ruiz (Javier Rey); Alberto's scheming half-sister Patricia Márquez (Miriam Giovanelli); sisters Rita and Clara Montesinos (Cecilia Freire and Marta Hazas); managers Blanca Soto (Aitana Sánchez-Gijón) and Emilio López (José Sacristán), the latter of whom is also also Ana's uncle; designer Raúl de la Riva (Asier Etxeandia); and PluckyComicRelief Pedro Infantes (Adrián Lastra) and later his cousin Jonás (Llorenç González).

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The show primarily focuses on the [[Main/StarCrossedLovers love story]] of Alberto Marquez, heir of Galerías Velvet, one of the most prestigious fashion houses in late 1950s Madrid, and Ana Ribera, who works as a seamstress there. As Alberto struggles to maintain Velvet's prestige and profitability, Ana works to make her mark as a fashion designer in her own right. The show also focuses on the personal lives of other employees, namely Alberto's friend and business partner, Mateo Ruiz; Alberto's scheming half-sister Patricia Marquez; sisters Rita and Clara Montesinos; Velvet's managers Blanca Soto and Emilio Lopez (who is also Ana's uncle); designer Raul de la Riva; and PluckyComicRelief Pedro Infantes (and later, his cousin Jonas).

It ran for four seasons between February 2014 and December 2016; currently, it's available on Netflix for USA, Canadian, Latin American, and UK audiences.

* AbsenteeActor: [[spoiler:Miguel Angel Silvestre's other [[Series/Sense8 commitments]] meant part of the third and almost the entire fourth season had to be written around his absence.]]

* MegaNekko and MegaNe: Rita and Raul. Curiously, they are the only Intuitive Thinkers / Rationals in the entire show.

* InstantBirthJustAddWater: [[spoiler:When Ana gives birth at the end of season 3, she goes from announcing that she has gone into labor at Mateo and Clara's wedding to giving birth by the altar all within a span of fifteen minutes.]]

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----''Velvet'' (originally titled ''Galerías Velvet'') is a Spanish television series produced by Bambú Producciones for Antena 3.

!This work provides examples of:

** During Franco's regime, the only recoginzed form of marriage was the Catholic sacrament; meaning civil unions and divorces were non-existent. [[spoiler:This is why Alberto constantly talked about getting an ''annulment'' from Cristina in the third season. He meant ecclesiastical nullity, not civil or legal nullity.]]

** Pedro had a son, Manolito, with his ex-girlfriend Rosa-Maria, although in his defense, he was not aware of Manolito's existance until Rosa-Maria reappears in his life and introduces him.

* DumbBlonde: Played with. Platinum blonde Patricia is not stupid, but knows when to play dumb to get her way.

* GorgeousPeriodDress: The show is set at a high end fashion house in the 1950s.

** Luisa also goes from a simply ponytail to a coiffed bob after becoming a famous singer as well.

* InterclassRomance: Ana, a working class seamstress, and Alberto, heir to a fashion empire, have been in love since they were children, but their class differences kept them apart for years.
** BetaCouple Clara and Mateo have elements of this--she's from a small rural village and he's from an upper class family like Alberto, although they don't encounter as many problems.

* LukeYouAreMyFather: Max claims to be Blanca's long lost son that she had given up for adoption. After he falls in love with her, he reveals the deception and begins building a [[MayDecemberRomance very different relationship with Blanca]].

* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Mateo is the manly man to sensitive guys Alberto and Pedro. Notice that Mateo has a mustache, while Alberto and Pedro are always clean shaven.

* SharpDressedMan: Many of the male characters, unsurprisingly as the show is set in a high end fashion house.

* TheFashionista: Multiple characters, unsurprisingly as the show is set at a high end fashion house.
* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: Clara and Rita are a textbook example.

* TimeSkip: There's a five year jump between the third and fourth season.

* UpMarketing: An undercurrent throughout the series is the belief that ''haute couture'' is for the upper classes and the resistance from those in the industry to market to middle and working class people. One high end designer refuses to make a dress for Rita because she's just a seamstress, and Marco is against Ana's idea of having Velvet sell a ''prêt-à-porter'' fashion line because he thinks it will chase the store's high end clientele away.

** [[spoiler:When Mateo comes back to Galerías Velvet in the fourth season, Clara faces working with him again.]]

** [[spoiler:The Marquezes sell Galerias Velvet, thus officially sending all characters on their separate ways. Long gone characters from both series make appearances - even the dead ones return as flashbacks and ghosts. Alberto and Ana (wearing the outfits we first met them in in the first episode of Velvet, even lampshade it during the finale dance montage, claiming that this story has ended]].

* AbsenteeActor: [[spoiler:Miguel Angel Silvestre's other [[Sense8 commitments]] meant part of the third and almost the entire fourth season had to be written around his absence.]]

* StockSitcomGrandFinale: While not a sitcom, the FinaleMovie for ''Velvet Colección'' had many features of the trope:

** [[spoiler:When Mateo comes back to Galerías Velvet in the fourth season, Clara faces working with him again.]]
* YourCheatingHeart: Alberto is still very much in love with Ana despite having married Cristina. [[spoiler:He just married Cristina to save Velvet from financial ruin. He tries to make an effort to return her feelings but has a fling with Sara, which devastates Cristina.]]
** Enrique is married to Bárbara but doesn't seem to feel much remorse for constantly cheating on her, [[spoiler:not even when he had a long-term affair with Patricia]].
** [[spoiler:Patricia, for that matter, doesn't seem to be very concerned about sleeping with Jonás, or Enrique-even after she's married Valentín.]]
** [[spoiler:In the second season, it's revealed Don Rafael's marriage to Isabel was still valid, since he was never really widowed. Isabel also mentioned that as she waited for him in Cuba; she had no idea he was planning on marrying Gloria.]]

* TeamDad/TeamMom: Emilio and Blanca for the staff.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Blanca. Very bossy and strict--but would do anything and everything for her employees.

* LoveMakesYouCrazy: [[spoiler:Cristina, to the point of spending the years between the third and fourth series in some form of psychiatric treatment.]]