Freddie Mercury's cornflower blue lounge suit, worn with Montserrat Caballé for publicity for the Barcelona album, 1988

A bespoke two-piece formal suit of cornflower blue slubbed linen, the double-breasted jacket with pointed lapels, jetted pockets, breast pocket, six mother-of-pearl buttons to front and four to each cuff, lined in matching blue satin with two interior pockets, with a pair of corresponding turn-up trousers with pleated front and concealed hook and eye fastening, matching blue satin lining to waistband, both unlabelled, but probably by David Chambers; with a short-sleeved Hawaiian shirt printed with a pattern of exotic foliage in pale blue, fuchsia pink and emerald green, with left breast pocket, fastening with blue plastic buttons, labelled ‘Hawaiian Klein’; and a pair of fuchsia pink canvas espadrilles the moulded rubber soles marked ‘Cousu Main’, size 42

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