Beyoncé Wears Plunging Blazer and Skirt Suit to Mom Tina Knowles’s Book Party

On Saturday, Beyoncé shared a carousel of photos from a May 2 event at the Wiltern celebrating her mother Tina Knowles and her hit memoir, Matriarch. The book was released on April 22, and has already made it to the number one spot of the Times’bestsellers list. Beyoncé celebrated that accomplishment with a post where she wrote, “The Mama T was that good?? Ha. You deserve it, I’m so proud!”

In the new pics, the Cowboy Carter singer was wearing a speckled gray skirt suit with a blazer that featured a plunging neckline and sculptural collar. The jacket’s hem was in an exaggerated peplum cut, standing out from her hips. The musical icon wore the look with matching pointed-toe heels and a purse in the same material. She had her hair back in a low bun with tendrils of honey-blonde hair around her face and accessorized with statement earrings and sunglasses. Beyoncé wore a natural makeup palette with a red lip for a pop of color.

In the pictures, Beyoncé posed with Knowles and with her husband, rapper Jay-Z. Knowles wore an off-the-shoulder shimmering silver gown with a full-length skirt. She left her hair down in loose glamorous curls.

In an April interview with People, Knowles said she resisted writing the memoir “because I thought [people] only want to know all my kids’ business. They’re not going to be interested in me.”

But she changed her mind.

“I’ve lived this incredible life, and you really don’t realize it until you start writing everything down,” she said. “I just started thinking about the fact that I never met my grandparents and the history that I gathered for my mom. I wish that I would have asked her more. I wish I would have investigated more.”

She wrote the book before deciding to release it, wanting to “leave that legacy for my kids.” Knowles also wanted to “encourage young people and older people to go and record their parents and get those stories.”