Harry Brant, who found fame as an early teenage esthete with a distinctive androgynous look and was a staple of the New York elite fashion scene with his older brother Peter, was found dead Sunday at the age of 24 years. He died from an accidental overdose of prescription drugs. .
New York Times he said he had been battling the addiction for several years and that, according to his family, he would soon be in rehab.
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, spending his way around nightclubs, yachts and restaurants around the world, accompanied by supermodels, famous photographers and celebrities from social networks.
He counted Naomi Campbell (his mother’s maid of honor) and Courtney Love as his friends. He befriended the latter on their first meeting, saying, “We were friends from the first meeting, and we realized that we were carrying the same book about Greek mythology.”
At the age of 16, he was one of the youngest people ever invited to the Met Ball Vogue Gala, wearing an embroidered Yves Saint Laurent jacket. His connections with the top of the fashion and publishing world were evident in the fact that he was asked to contribute a photo 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 family home in Connecticut, the 53-acre white birch farm named after Peter Brant Sr.’s white newsprint production company.
Brant Sr. had an amazing art collection, including a 10-foot-tall Jeff Koons sculpture, Balloon dog (orange). The art collection is said to contain over 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. married Seymour when she was 48, and she was 26, still the top model for Victoria’s Secret. The piece was mounted on a wall as a hunting trophy, according to the profile of the brothers from Vanity Fair, who approvingly called Harry “Little Lord Fauntleroy.” New York Magazine referred to Harry and Peter as “The Most Beautiful Teenage Brothers in New York.”
Surrounded by fashion, Harry modeled for Balmain and Italian Vogueand founded a unisex makeup line with MAC, launching collections in 2015 and 2016.
He said Vanity Fair that he liked the idea of getting dressed and “taking on a new person every time you go out. Once, I will think of myself as a captain in the army or as a prince who was expelled from his country. “
In 2016, he was arrested after refusing to pay a fee in Greenwich, Conn., And was charged with theft, interference with an officer and possession of drugs.
“We will be saddened forever that his life was interrupted by this devastating disease,” his family said in a statement. “He’s accomplished a lot in his 24 years, but we’ll never get a chance to see how much Harry could have done.”