Stories from the Collection
Freddie Off Stage: The Lacoste Wristband from Garden Lodge
A Lacoste sports wristband from Garden Lodge, reflecting Freddie Mercury’s casual and private style in the 1980s.
Alongside the theatrical costumes, crowns and capes, there is another Freddie Mercury: more private, everyday and sporty. This navy blue Lacoste terry cloth wristband, with its small embroidered crocodile logo, belongs to that less spectacular but deeply revealing dimension.
From Garden Lodge, the wristband reflects Freddie’s casual taste in the 1980s: an aesthetic made of comfortable clothing, sporty details and personal choices far removed from the staged construction of his public persona. It is a small object, and precisely for that reason an intimate one.
Its strength does not lie in spectacle, but in closeness. It does not show Freddie Mercury on stage before a stadium crowd. It suggests the man behind the icon: the collector, the host, the artist in his private moments.