Ralph Fitzgerald, the 23-year-old cutter-in-residence at Huntsman’s Manhattan outpost, works on a bespoke suit.

Ralph Fitzgerald, the 23-year-old cutter-in-residence at Huntsman’s Manhattan outpost, works on a bespoke suit.

Photographer: Victoria Hely-Hutchinson for Bloomberg Businessweek

Huntsman Brings Its Savile Row Style to a Stateside Audience

The 200-year-old tailoring institution is the first of its kind to set up a permanent beachhead in the U.S. Will it work?

Zachary Peck steps into a gently burbling cocktail party at the Huntsman tailoring headquarters in New York wearing a button-front shirt and Irish linen trousers. Tall and lean, with narrow shoulders and scrubby blond hair, the Angeleno looks every bit the 25-year-old part-time model that he is—a handsome illustration of nonchalance.

It takes only a moment, though, before a neatly suited Huntsman employee speeds forward to slip a beautifully cut, bright blue single-breasted silk-and-linen blazer over his ­shoulders. Immediately elegant, the young gentleman is recognizable as someone else: the dashing grandson of screen legend Gregory Peck and an inheritor of his impeccable dress sense.