What do most of us ask from a proper bag? Oh, the usual. A little chic. A sense of organization. A touch of status. And, yeah, the ability to hold and carry things.

But happiness and loyalty? Not usually at the top of your list.

That’s only because you haven’t yet slung a Mandarina Duck over your shoulder. The sleek totes, drummed up by a legendary Italian duo, are named for what inspired them — the plumage of Asian waterfowl, said to symbolize happiness and loyalty.

Can a bag really be all that? With shapes and functionality this rad, who cares? Certainly not Mandarina Duck’s hard-core European devotees, who snap up designs like the simple, trim messenger bags and the geometric lines of numbers like the featherlight Sweet, which mixes leather accents and innovative fabrics.

Until now, the cutting-edge sacks have been impossible to buy in Boston. But they’ve just hit the shelves at Bliss Home; soon we’ll all be as addicted as the label’s following across the pond.

Did we say addicted? We meant loyal. And, of course, happy.

Available at Bliss Home, 121 Newbury Street, at Back Bay, between Clarendon and Dartmouth Streets (617-421-5544).