About the brand

Robe de Voyage is a boutique range of luxurious cotton and silk robes designed to pack and go.  A check-in essential for every getaway.

Robe de Voyage's principal cloth is khadi, one of the world's most sustainable fabrics, warm in winter and cool in summer, and has long been symbolic of freedom. 

Working with clusters of spinners and weavers in West Bengal, where weaving is a way of life,  Founder and Director Jess Guard is commited to preserving this unique industry of hand weaving, a lengthly but vastly rewarding manufacturing process.

“It’s the ultimate in slow fashion,” says Guard. “I can trace who has made every piece.”

Guard first visited India when she was studying fashion at the Royal College of Art, and continued to travel to India to develop collections of prints and embroideries when she went on to work for fashion houses in Paris. 

It was on one of those trips, sitting by a hotel pool in a huge white fluffy gown, and inspired by a photo of Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart having breakfast in the Congo looking effortlessly stylish wearing matching dressing gowns, Jess set out to design the perfect travel robe. 

Her first collection, ’Scribble’, in aqueous blue and white evokes ripples of sunlight on water and was painted by Guard in one continuous brushstroke. The limited edition pool robes were snapped up by Tate Britain and Pompidou in Paris for their David Hockney retrospective “A Bigger Splash” and sold out.

 “’Scribble’ isn't just a print; it's a symbol of liberation and self-expression,” Guard says. “I've tried to create a company that truly reflects my values and a print that resonates with my life; a print that is recognisably mine and sustainably produced.”