Harry Brant, who found fame as an early teenage esthete with a distinctive androgynous look and who was a staple of the New York elite fashion scene with his older brother Peter, was found dead on Sunday at 24 years old. He died from an accidental overdose of prescription drugs. .
He New York News he said he had been battling addiction for several years and that, according to his family, he needed to go into rehab soon.
Harry was the son of Stephanie Seymour, one of the original supermodels, and Peter M. Brant, the publisher and art collector. As such, he grew up in a golden world, partying in nightclubs, yachts and restaurants around the world accompanied by supermodels, famous photographers and social media stars.
He had Naomi Campbell (his mother’s bridesmaid) and Courtney Love as friends. He dated his friendship with the latter on their first date, saying, “We were friends from the first time we met and we realized we were carrying the same book on Greek mythology.”
At 16 she was one of the youngest people ever invited to the Vetga Met Ball Gala, wearing an embroidered Yves Saint Laurent jacket. Her connections to the higher world of fashion and editing were evident in the fact that she was asked to contribute a photographic diary of the event to the fashion magazine. W.
He lived in a New York City apartment with his brother Peter, often traveling home on weekends to the Connecticut family home, the 53-acre white birch farm, named after the manufacturing company. of White Birch Newspaper by Peter Brant Sr.
Brant Sr. had an amazing art collection that included a 10-foot-tall Jeff Koons sculpture, Dog with balloon (orange). The art collection is said to comprise more than 1,000 pieces, including works by Andy Warhol (whom he met when he was 20) Julian Schnabel, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Richard Serra.
Brant Sr. she married Seymour when she was 48 and she 26, and was still Victoria’s Secret’s most important model. He commissioned a nude bust from artist Maurizio Cattelan known as “Trophy Wife”. The piece was mounted on a wall like a hunting trophy, according to a profile of the brothers of Vanity Fair, who aptly called Harry “Little Lord Fauntleroy.” New York Magazine he referred to Harry and Peter as “the most beautiful teenage siblings in New York.”
Surrounded by fashion, Harry modeled for Balmain and the Italian Vogue, and founded a unisex makeup line with MAC, launching collections in 2015 and 2016.
He said Vanity Fair that he liked the idea of dressing up and “adopting a new person, every time he leaves. Once I will think of myself as a military captain or as a prince who has been banished from his country.
In 2016 he was arrested after refusing to pay a taxi fare in Greenwich, Conn., And was charged with theft, interference with an officer and possession of drugs.
“We will be saddened forever that his life is cut short by this devastating disease,” his family said in a statement. “He achieved a lot in his 24 years, but we’ll never get a chance to see how much Harry could have done.”