Stephanie Seymour's Steely Grace for WSJ Magazine, Lensed by Daniel Jackson AOC Fashion

Model icon Stephanie Seymour covers WSJ Magazine’s Spring Women’s Fashion issue, making her first supermodel appearance since the January 2021 death of her son Harry Brant due to an accidental overdose of prescription drugs.

Now age 54, Seymour is styled by Clare Richardson in somber clothes from Alaïa, Dolce & Gabbana, Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello and more.

There is a deep sadness that pervades Seymour’s interview with Derek Blasberg — as can be expected when a mother has lost her son to a drug overdose. Daniel Jackson [IG] captures Stephnie’s poignant grief, photographing the woman who “has built her career by happily submitting to the gods of the photo shoot”, in the words of Blasberg.

Those gods include Herb Ritts, Peter Lindbergh, and Richard Avedon. Seymour had a long and lucrative career with Victoria’s Secret.

Stephanie Seymour wed billionaire businessman and art collector Peter Brant in 1995. The couple has three children — Peter Jr., Harry and Lily — in addition to Seymour’s first son, Dylan Thomas Andrews, from her previous marriage to Tommy Andrews. Brant’s first child, Ryan Brant, with his first wife, Sandra Brant, is also part of their blended family.

Neither Stephanie Seymour’s life nor Peter Brant’s was ever dull. In 2018, the New York Times shared ‘The Great Interview Magazine Caper’, writing “Andy Warhol’s magazine is dead. No wait, it’s back! Inside Peter Brant’s latest magic trick.”

Wearing Harry’s Suit

Seymour shares the details of a specific Saint Laurent by Hedi Slimane suit that Harry just had to have. “It’s a suit that I keep hanging in my dressing room, which is this big room where I keep all my stuff. I do my makeup there. I live in that room,” she tells Blasberg. “I looked at that suit one night and I said, ‘I’m going to put it on.’ It fit me.”

It was Seymour’s idea to wear Harry’s suit for the WSJ shoot and to have her son’s name painted on her bare back. “If I think that Harry would love something, I do it, and it does help me with my grief,” she says.