What is a capsule collection?

I wondered... What is a capsule collection?

Fashion fascinates me. The ideas behind a design, the people who dictate what's cool and what's "in", and the process of bringing an idea to life are all part of this wonderful lifestyle that I like to follow online and off. Go figure then, that I kept coming across a term that I'd never heard before - A Capsule Collection.

At first I thought it was something wild and Japanese; like Gachapon dispensers that new youthful labels were utilizing in their marketing. I remembered Dragon Ball Z had Capsule Corp., maybe a Capsule Collection is a term from that series. I even thought that maybe it was something to do with Akira and Kaneda's jacket with the pill on the back. Nope. I was dead wrong.

I found the answer at Yahoo! Answers. They tell me that a Capsule Collection is "...a set of apparel items -- say six to twelve articles -- by the same designer, that, when used together in different combinations, can produce about twenty different looks (outfits). A capsule wardrobe entails the same concept, however, apparel items can come from a number of designers. Each piece of the capsule must be interchangeable and mix and match well together."

I wondered and now I wonder no more.