International Shopping, Online: Tres Bien Shop

It's been a long time--too long--since our last installment of our International Shopping, Online series. So we're especially excited to introduce you to Tres Bien.

Tres Bien began as an online shop based in Lund, a city at the very southern tip of Sweden. It's now a thriving online destination as well as two physical shops (named Holiday, in Lund and Malmo) focusing on mostly Scandinavian designers that are up and coming, avant-garde and often both. If anything, it's a great representation of the enormous and diverse amount of fashion talent coming out of Scandinavia, whether it's designers working on unique, colorful T-shirt designs or minimal, avant-garde dresses.

The shop stocks Henrik Vibskov and Wood Wood and April 77, but we're going to focus on designers that are new to us.

1206 is a boutique and clothing line out of Copenhagen. Each season they release a line of T-shirts and hoodies centered around a particular theme. This latest is the "Good Lock" collection. Most refreshing of all? Every other design isn't a dumb advertisement logo tee.

Designer Carin Wester hails from Stockholm and has received much press there as a promising up and comer. She started her eponymous label in 2003 and in 2005 launched a menswear collection under the Wester mark.

Six Eight Seven Six is actually based in the UK and makes a intriguing mix of graphic tees and cut and sew basics for men.

Our favorite of all from the new names might be Fifth Avenue Shoe Repair. We're not sure why their name is what it is but if we were to venture a guess we'd say it's because of the pure utilitarian nature of the clothing and the obvious attention paid to craftsmanship. The primarily monochromatic collection for men and women is about simple clothing with careful details.

The shop is apparently working on a fully internationalized website, but it's already pretty easy to use for English readers who know how to convert currencies. Shipping to The States is $28, so you'll likely want to order a bunch of things at once (which, with Tres Bien's stock, would be no problem at all or us at least).