In a 35-nanosecond burst of laser light, 4.3 megabytes of a color image are burned on a photosensitive DuPont polymer film, rearranging the chemistry into a zebra-striped interference pattern.
The shimmering long striped gowns and those made from a tiny glitzy checkerboard pattern that clung to the body, which closed the show, had everyone snapping photographs and cheering for Jacobs.