Stephanie Seymour Wears Late Son Harry Brant’s Swimsuit and His Identify on Her Again in Touching Tribute
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Stephanie Seymour is opening up about how she’s dealing with the lack of her son Harry Brant — and carrying on his legacy by means of his love for style.
In a brand new interview with WSJ. Journal for its Spring Women’s Fashion Issue — her first since Harry’s dying at 24 from an accidental overdose in 2021 – the supermodel paid tribute to her second youngest by modeling his favourite Saint Laurent by Hedi Slimane swimsuit.
“If I believe that Harry would love one thing, I do it, and it does assist me with my grief,” Seymour, 54, advised the outlet, following the two-year anniversary of his death.
In a poignant black-and-white portrait from the quilt shoot, photographed by Dan Jackson, she dons nothing however the swimsuit trousers whereas she holds the blazer to her chest. The title “Harry” and a small arrow-struck coronary heart are painted on her naked again.
“It is a swimsuit that I hold hanging in my dressing room, which is that this huge room the place I hold all my stuff. I do my make-up there. I dwell in that room,” she shared of the piece. “I checked out that swimsuit one night time and I mentioned, ‘I’ll put it on.’ It match me.”
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“It nonetheless feels so good to place his garments on,” Seymour added, whereas revealing that she needs to proceed to {photograph} Harry’s clothes as a result of “he would find it irresistible.” Plus, she mentioned, there is a “entire flock of ladies that may like to put on his garments and be photographed.”
In her cowl story, Seymour additionally remembered her son’s love for styling outfits in his childhood years. “It was the cutest factor after they had been in elementary college,” she shared, including that Harry would pick her garments for parent-teacher conferences.
“I might say, ‘OK, you’ll be able to select my outfit,’ after which he would undergo every part, the classic, the every part, lay all of it on the ground.” That when included a high-end ensemble that includes an archival baby-blue Christian Dior costume and matching Manolo Blahnik pumps.
“I might say, ‘Harry, I am unable to put on a classic couture costume to a parent-teacher convention,'” Seymour remembered, “He’d say, ‘Why not?'”
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Seymour and her enterprise mogul husband, Peter Brant (who additionally shares stepson Dylan, son Peter Jr. and daughter Lily with the mannequin), revealed that Harry had “misplaced his battle with habit and died on account of an unintentional overdose of prescription medicine,” in a statement shared with PEOPLE the month of his dying.
“Our hearts are shattered. Harry wished to beat his habit and was simply days away from re-entering rehab,” they said.
“Harry was not simply our son, he was additionally a beautiful brother, loving grandson, favourite uncle and a caring buddy. He was a inventive, loving and highly effective soul that introduced mild into so many individuals’s hearts. He was really a good looking individual inside and outside.”
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WSJ. Journal‘s Spring Ladies’s Style Concern, out on newsstands Saturday, Feb. eleventh.
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