Two years after Harry Brant’s dying, Stephanie Seymour is opening up about how she’s dealing with the lack of her youngest son, who died of an unintentional overdose at age 24 in 2021.
“If I believe that Harry would love one thing, I do it, and it does assist me with my grief,” the supermodel and mom of 4 spoke stated in an interview with WSJ. Journal. One of many methods she’s executed that is by holding all of his favourite items of clothes and periodically mixing them into her personal wardrobe. Seymour recalled that her late son at all times liked trend and began styling his personal outfits in elementary college.
In a single portrait, the mannequin wears Brant’s beloved Saint Laurent go well with designed by Hedi Slimane, holding the blazer over her chest to disclose her naked again upon which the title “Harry” has been painted in cursive with a purple coronary heart. She instructed the journal, “It is a go well with that I maintain hanging in my dressing room, which is that this huge room the place I maintain all my stuff. I do my make-up there. I dwell in that room. I checked out that go well with one evening and I stated, ‘I will put it on.’ It match me.” She continued, “It nonetheless feels so good to place his garments on,” including that she needs to proceed to doc Brant’s wardrobe like this as a result of “he would find it irresistible.” Plus, there is a “complete flock of ladies that may like to put on his garments and be photographed.”
One thing else that has helped Seymour and her husband Peter Brant heal is to aim to dwell within the second day by day, particularly for his or her grandchildren’s sake. “I attempt to simply be current. For me with holidays, and I am positive numerous different folks can relate, it is troublesome now as a result of I am at all times pondering of what is lacking,” she stated. “There’s nothing that is helped me get by way of all of this greater than my grandchildren,” and her function as “Grandma Stephanie.” She additionally introduced that there is not too long ago been a brand new addition to their household, her eldest son Dylan Brant welcome a child boy in October named after his late brother.
Fellow supermodel and godmother to all 4 of Seymour’s youngsters, Naomi Campbell, additionally spoke to the publication about dropping Harry and what he meant to her. “I keep in mind when he was 12, I might take him to conferences and grown adults couldn’t imagine his thoughts and maturity,” she recalled. “Steven Meisel liked him. Pat [McGrath] liked him. Everybody may see how particular he was.”
In January 2021, following Harry’s passing, Seymour and her husband launched a press release asserting that their son had “misplaced his battle with dependancy and died because of an unintentional overdose of prescription medicine.” They continued, “Our hearts are shattered. Harry wished to beat his dependancy and was simply days away from re-entering rehab. Harry was not simply our son, he was additionally an exquisite brother, loving grandson, favourite uncle, and a caring pal. He was a artistic, loving and highly effective soul that introduced gentle into so many individuals’s hearts. He was really a ravishing individual in and out.”
