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 Stephanie’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.”

After a brutal and bruising battle in divorce court over 2009-2010, a split that was bigger fodder for the tabloids than anything ever created on the ‘80s series ‘Dallas’, Seymour and Brant reconciled, much to everyone’s astonishment.

At a crucial moment in its final stages of a courtroom drama the judge just wanted to be over, the proceedings ended with the couple deciding to stay together — out of respect for their family.

In 2022, the couple bought a pair of historic, perfectly-preserved, 47-feet-wide each, landmarked homes at 67 and 69 E. 93rd St.

The Brant Foundation Art Study Center is located in a four-story East Village home on E. 6th St. where artist and conductor Walter De Maria lived and worked.

Brothers Petey and Harry adored their mother, and the fashion and art worlds adored them. AOC has several fashion stories of the boys referenced in the WSJ article. [Yes, into the archives]. With industry icons like Azzedine Alaïa hovering over them, and Naomi Campbell as their godmother how could they not be darlings.

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.

Describing the holidays from December and New Year’s, Stephanie reflects on her life without Harry: “

“I try to just be present. For me with holidays, and I’m sure a lot of other people can relate, it’s difficult now because I’m always thinking of what’s missing,” she says. “But I’m really lucky. [We] have a lot of grandchildren. And there’s nothing that’s helped me get through all of this more than my grandchildren. And a lot of people say, ‘Well, they’re not your grandchildren. They’re Peter’s grandchildren.’ But they don’t feel that way, and neither do I. Nothing has given me more comfort than those kids calling me Grandma Stephanie.”
Seymour’s eldest son, Dylan, had his first son in October. “He had a little boy,” Seymour says. “And they named him Harry.”