*Fast fashion – term used, especially in the field of fashion and clothing, to define those collections whose design passes very quickly from the catwalk/presentation to the sales shelf. Highly efficient production method, aimed at standardising production linked to defined types of fiber with shortening of the supply chain. The exasperation of the all-in-one philosophy has taken on all the negative aspects of a vision of clothing as an object of compulsive consumerism of low price and low quality.
*Made-to-order – term used for a production process where the control lever is identified in the consumer’s demand on the basis of which we proceed with production, packaging, definition of further customising and then marketing. Typical of highly specialised and technologically advanced sectors (aeronautics or robotics), as opposed to made to stock (creation of stock of semi-finished or finished products to draw on to reduce waiting and delivery times), made to orderrequires time longer delivery times