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In the case of synthetic biology, creating designer children is in some extraordinarily distant future.
These experiments have reinvigorated a long-running debate about the ethics of creating "designer humans".
He started his own business in 1981, creating designer apparel that developed a cult following among the Upper East Side crowd.
"But there is a point where you have to draw the line, and say we're not creating designer babies here," he adds.
The hotelier Ian Schrager, a founder of the Studio 54 nightclub, was a pioneer in creating designer hotels with hip nightclubs, like the Paramount, Royalton and Hudson hotels in Manhattan in the 1980s and '90s.
At the time, the possibility of creating "designer babies" — a prospect that, no matter how unlikely, is attached to almost everything written or said about CRISPR — was too remote to consider.
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There are even plans to create designer hats, scarves and bags from the sheep's wool to rival the Western Isles' famous Harris Tweed.
Because the nucleus of the cell with the DNA instructions is not affected, this is not genetic engineering that could be used to create designer babies.
As the Senate prepares to take up anti-cloning legislation, all sides agree that human cloning to create designer babies should be banned.
Nonetheless, the intent of IVF sex selection is clear: reproductive technologies are being used to remove autistic people from future generations, not just to create "designer babies".
The flourishing economy has helped create designer shops, new restaurants, a plethora of recent museum openings and striking modern architecture – Daniel Libeskind's newly finished, eye-catching Zlota 44 (1) is the city's tallest residential building.
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