From "Meet NYC’s Most Beautiful Teenage Brothers," from February 2012 (in Refinery).
I'm reading that this morning because it was linked in "Harry Brant, Troubled Society Fixture, Dies at 24" (The Cut)(death by drug overdose)("Naturally, his upbringing [son of Interview magazine owner Peter Brant and supermodel Stephanie Seymour] instilled in him a deep obsession with fashion and beauty. 'I have a love of opulence,' he told the Times in 2012 matter-of-factly. His childhood uniform was a pair of overalls, an Alaïa T-shirt, and his mom’s Manolo Blahnik loafers, he said.... By the time he was 17, he had a column in Interview called 'The Look.'
In 2015, the Brant brothers turned their dandyism into a business, founding a unisex makeup line with MAC....").
ADDED: Another linked article, this one in Gawker, also from 2012, "The Brant Brothers: The World's Luckiest Teenage Homosexuals": "The great thing is that these two are even allowed to exist.... [T]hey're just allowed to wear leopard print tops in public, hang out backstage at a Versace show, and wear the latest Dolce and Gabanna fashions like Little Lord Fauntleroy and his gay brother. And no one cares. No one calls them names or tears them down or tries to get them to change just until they get to college. They're just allowed to be The Brants...."
And "Harry and Peter Brant on Hotness, Highlighter, and Tolerance" (The Cut, June 2016):
What feels boring to you right now?
H: Gender binaries.
H: Gender norms. Although we’re in a time where we have more freedom, it’s still prevalent. It’s a lot more liberal in fashion and beauty. But In mainstream America, it’s still pretty rough. If you do anything frivolous, you’re considered a freak. So for that to stop, that would be nice. And if I were president, eyeliner for everybody. And highlighter.
P: It’s true, everyone looks better in highlighter.
H: Instead of “Let them eat cake,” my slogan would be “Let them have highlighter.”
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Who cares??
"... they swallow attention like nobody's business..."
If that isn't a festive piñata of a phrase. I hope chins were wiped.
I am Laslo.
What kind of outfit is the Refinery that they run an article called Meet NYC's Most Beautiful Teenage Brothers and it doesn't include a photograph!?
"'I have a love of opulence,' he told the Times in 2012." He was 16 in 2012. What kind of people find a statement like this from a 16-year-old the slightest bit interesting or meaningful?
I'm reading that this morning because it was linked in "Harry Brant, Troubled Society Fixture, Dies at 24" (The Cut)(death by drug overdose)
Richard Corey.
Another life cut short by drugs. Shame.
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I am not surprised by this development. It never seems to end well when you read about young people whose lives revolve around ephemera like fashion. They never seem to be able to handle fashion passing them by.
Who cares??
We should all care, at least until we know how this tragic event will affect the world of professional motocross.
"Cut short by drugs"
Addictions are fueled by ego. All that outsized ego fuels self doubt and an inferiority complex. Drugs are the necessary buffer to allow those two conflicting emotions to exist at the same time, and believing it.
"...and, of course, wearing the kinds of clothes young men (and women) would pretty much give a kidney for..."
"Gay youth"
Fuckin nailed it.
"This youth will become a great scoundrel!" - Pius V on Richelieu.
Beauty is overrated.
The beauty of that family is especially overrated.
Once again, we must learn not to look at other people as incredibly lucky with no challenges. We have no idea what other people are dealing with.
A 24 year old dead. How incredibly sad.
Rich beautiful people have mental health issues too.
They're named Harry & Peter?
Is this a bad gay joke?
Sorry, but in the grand scheme of the world, I really don't care what a pampered rich celebrity kid does. Sorry, not sorry.
The boy was fed upon by his elders, who loved to call him lucky and snark that he was "allowed" to exist.
I had Andy Warhol's diaries open in my Kindle (because yesterday I was looking up what he'd said about Fran Lebowitz) so I looked up Peter Brant (the father of Harry and owner of Interview magazine, Andy's magazine):
"Wednesday, September 23, 1981 I had to meet Peter Brant for lunch at the office. Also there was a woman who’d called me, she brought a portrait back because a little girl threw an apple at it and I have to fix it. So Peter Brant came and he was just awful. He picked out some prints, and now we’re all settled with him on the money he invested in Bad and he never has to come back. Good."
Warhol, Andy; Hackett, Pat. The Andy Warhol Diaries (p. 418). Grand Central Publishing. Kindle Edition.
("Bad" was a movie.)
What a meaningless existence. The adults involved are disgusting.
Rich beautiful children are preyed upon by elders too. Perhaps even more so because the rich power elders in their circles are immune from punishment.
iowan2 said..."Cut short by drugs"
Addictions are fueled by ego. All that outsized ego fuels self doubt and an inferiority complex.
In a roundabout way. Addictions are fueled by self-hatred. They're a defense mechanism gone haywire.
How is this different from the typical passing scene that Jean Shepherd pointed out once, on the NYC bus, two ladies discussing the lives of Liz and Richard Burton, as if it were part of their own lives.
He will always appear young. Sad, but not surprising.
Addictions are triggered by dopamine.
Involuntary performance art seems to me to be a form of slavery.
Does all this look like wisdom or its absence? RIP, young man. Tragic.
If I’m lucky this will be the first and last time I hear about them.
Now I think I’ll retire to the basement and admire my Japanese tool collection.
Addictions are triggered by dopamine.
But but...a self-hating egotistical inferiority complex as a causal agent would explain why people often become addicted to substances and activities which don't involve dopamine, like snorting flour and washing the kitchen floor.
Sad.
"Highlighter"? As in the yellow and orange things we used in college? Or is it some kind of cosmetic?
Peter Brant Sr. was Donald Trump's boyhood friend in Queens before Trump got sent to military school for their hijinks.
Hijinks have changed since then, I guess.
"And no one cares."
The most telling line, no?
The so-called elite has no basis for caring that young people go astray into meaningless nonsense.
Of course, the rest of us are forced to care that their nonjudgmentalism is the new summum bonum.
If there is anything to reincarnation, lets hope this boy is reborn into a working class family, has a dad who introduces him to football when he turns two, and takes him deer hunting
for the first time when he turns 10.
Sex binaries: male and female. Gender binaries or sex-correlated physical and mental (e.g. sexual orientation) attributes: masculine and feminine, respectively. A transgender (i.e. state or process of divergence from normal) spectrum. A child that is a baby that is a Fetal-American with progress of a wicked solution.
He has my vote.
>>“We will forever be saddened that Harry’s life was cut short by this devastating disease,”<<
Oh no, the unfortunate victim of a disease! Hey look, Harry, go out to the stylish clubs every night for a week, let all the other fashionably acceptable twinks breath all over you, catch Covid and die, and then get back to me on the "disease" thing. K?
The quicker the useless population offs it’s self, the better the world will be.
They're just allowed to be The Brants"
Which lead to drug abuse and death.
Perhaps mom and dad should have provided more direction? Or was it their direction that lead to death?
Can I just say that they look really gay?
And 'fashion model'? The kid is one step above homely.
These little fuckers should spend 8 hours working on a construction site with a shovel in their precious hands.
What kind of responsible parent allows a child to be raised like this?
As for the dead one...who fucking cares. Just another parasite who had the world and pissed it away.
Darwin award winner.
"Now I think I’ll retire to the basement and admire my Japanese tool collection."
Are they as well-made as Japanese golf clubs?
If so, they must be beauties : )
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"If you do anything frivolous, you’re considered a freak."
Dude, you ARE a freak. Own it, or change it.
You should have the right not to do everything the way other people do it. You do not, and should not, have the right to demand that other people value your way of doing it.
Rights go both ways. You don't value their way of doing it. So they don't have to value yours.
You want my approval? Do it my way. You don't want to do it my way? You don't get my approval.
I see a 'masculine beauty' tag.
There is zero masculine about these two.
Leather gays they are not.
Rich beautiful people have mental health issues too.
Well they certainly experience the same tragedies as the rest of us. I worked for the Chairman of a multibillion dollar corporation for several years. His mother had Alzheimer's. Didn't even recognize him. His wife had MS and we all know where that leads. I am certain he never assessed his situation in life and said to himself, "Yeah, but at least I have millions of dollars."
The rich are just as troubled as the rest of us.
I don't remember where I heard it, but someone once said that the poor are better off than the rich because the poor can delude themselves with the notion that all of their troubles would vanish if only they had money.
Levi Starks,
Now I think I’ll retire to the basement and admire my Japanese tool collection.
I trust you're serious. I have a little handsaw from Garrett Wade -- incredibly thin, almost dainty thing -- that we use around here for delicate tasks like cutting violin pegs so as to be flush. An astonishing tool. (Since I bought it, they've put it together with three other Japanese saws at a reduced price. Would like a do-over on that purchase; would now buy the set.)
tim maguire,
Richard Corey
Ah, yes, the man who "glittered when he walked," and one fine day put a bullet through his head. Don't let 'em tell you that kids don't remember what they read in elementary school. They do.
Apparently this young man found the gay lifestyle wanting.
Would like a do-over on that purchase; would now buy the set.)
Just a suggestion. Buy the set; give the original away.
I had never heard of these guys. The more masculine one looks like Ed Westwick, who played rich kid Chuck Bass on that show about rich kids. The more feminine one looks a little like Keira Knightley or Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Here's hoping the surviving one ... I wanted to say "straightens out" but I guess I can't ... you know what I mean.
Those boys are why I always look fwd to the big Sunday NYT 'Style' Issue.
Page for page it's funnier than the Onion and every editorial in the SF Chronicle.
"Society fixture"? They were never at any of the parties I've been at...
The Brants are the New England version of the Gettys. Too much money, too much entitlement, too many intoxicants, no common sense.
I commented on this story in last night’s cafe post. As I said there, it struck me as a real-life Richard Cory story, except with a drug overdose instead of a bullet through the head. It shows that people can be given every advantage and privilege and still be unhappy.
Based on their sexual preference the boys were probably both sexually abused when they were young. Based on the new stories the boys were definitely emotionally abused all their lives. Hopefully the remainder will be able to put the demons behind him and live a full and useful life.
It's a puzzle. The 'Theory of Evolution' informs that there can be no humans with same-sex attraction anymore. Evolution relies on Hetero-sex to pass on successful genes. Ergo, same-sex attraction cannot exist. But...it does.
And yet...our Public Schools anchor their rejection of God with 'Evolution'.
The Theory of Evolution was always just a club to beat 'Creationism' to death.
Personally, I don't find the Big Bang theory to be very helpful. 'A bunch of stuff was hanging around, and then slammed together and started this whole thing?' Maybe.
Where'd the stuff come from?
Vanity is for fools.
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