Anna Wintour is planning a temporary change of job. She will leave Milan Fashion Week tonight, immediately after the Gucci show, to travel to Oxford for her brief career switch from editor of American Vogue to interior designer. She is decorating her son Charlie’s room at Magdalen College in preparation for the start of the term. “Hamish [Bowles, American Vogue’s editor-at-large] says I should go to Habitat,” she tells me. “But I imagine Charlie will probably change it all as soon as I have finished.”

* Padma Lakshmi has been pining for her husband, Salman Rushdie, this week. While she is at the Milan shows, Mr. Rushdie is giving lectures in New York. “I’m just here to see a few shows and do some shopping,” she told me at Marni. “But I’m missing him so much.”

Ms. Lakshmi has put together a new look for Milan – a fetching take on androgyny that makes a dramatic change from the clinging, low-cut gowns she usually sports. On Tuesday, she teamed her old-school blouse and a pair of black, tailored Chloe trousers with a vintage, tweed Ralph Lauren waistcoat, cinched in tight, and a beige trilby.

* The latest converts to the sleek Armani school of dress are the Duran Duran boys. Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes, and Andy, John and Roger Taylor all wore dark suits by the designer at the Giorgio Armani show on Tuesday afternoon and, later, at the party he hosted to celebrate Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter’s forthcoming book, “Oscar Night.”

* Margherita Missoni, the gorgeous 21-year-old granddaughter of knitwear supremos Tai and Rosita Missoni, gave the audience an exclusive preview of the label’s spring/summer collection before the show yesterday. Although she does not work for the family knitwear company, whose collections are now designed by her mother, Angela, she certainly knows how to wear the pieces. She accessorized a cute 1970s-style floral dress with beads, flowers, high heels and a matching handbag.

* Forget the round-toe. The shoe for spring will be the wedge. It has walked every runway this week. At Marni, it was carved and cut-out. At Ferretti, it was decorated with multicoloured feathers and velvet ribbons. At Burberry Prorsum, it came in Wedgwood patterns to match the billowing smock trench coats. And at Pucci, Christian Lacroix styled it in psychedelic prints to match the swimwear, capri pants, and chiffon. Meanwhile, at Gucci, new accessories designer Frida Giannini has relaunched a canvas-embroidered court shoe with buckle front in “Flora,” a pretty motif originally created for Grace Kelly in 1966.