JAY-Z and Beyoncé, photographed during the filming of their “APESHIT” music video outside of the Musée du Louvre in Paris, France on May 28. The couple are standing in front of the Pyramide du Louvre, a large glass and metal pyramid designed by...

JAY-Z and Beyoncé, photographed during the filming of their “APESHIT” music video outside of the Musée du Louvre in Paris, France on May 28. The couple are standing in front of the Pyramide du Louvre, a large glass and metal pyramid designed by Chinese-American architect I.M. Pei. It serves as the main entrance to the Louvre.

Styled in collaboration with June Ambrose, Hov is wearing a retro look Gucci stamp print double breasted taffeta jacket ($4,280) and dress pants ($2,200). You cannot see his footwear, but they were also from the Gucci label. The font style and graphics on the suit were influenced by the 1767 book Découverte de la maison de campagne d'Horace—an erudite encyclopedia by French archeologist L’Abbé Bertrand Capmartin de Chaupy.

In an interview with The Cut, Ambrose revealed that it was Jay who loved the look of wearing no shirt with a suit that he had first experimented with while filming footage for the couple’s “On The Run Tour II” in Jamaica back in March. “When we were in Jamaica making content, we both discovered that [suits] look great without a shirt,” she told the site. “Jay specifically thought that, and I was so excited that he was willing to go for it. Then it became a thing [for us]—like, the new way of going rogue with suiting. It was kind of a throwback to the ’70s with a certain edginess to it that was kind of gangster, kind of romantic, and kind of rude boy. Definitely leaning toward Jamaican and Caribbean culture. When we shot the “APESHIT” video, we had really fallen in love [with that look].”