>> Last week, due to a miscommunication (mea culpa), we reported that Gap was not producing the platform boots at left. Turns out that the retailer is, in fact, selling the boots (which are part of Gap's main line, not a Pierre Hardy design for the retailer)  — and the black Pierre Hardy for Gap wedges — in select stores in New York, Chicago, and Houston, starting on Monday, Oct. 25, and in Los Angeles and San Francisco starting on Thursday, Oct. 28, according to a new press release. Both will retail for $195. As for our personal favorites, the platform bootie version of the boots at left, and the other wedge booties (which can both be seen here and are also part of Gap's main line), no set launch date or price point has been released, but they will hit stores — in December.

>> Newcomer Daphne Groeneveld was widely reported by a number of reputable sources to have scored Vogue Paris's November 2010 cover, but it seems that Carine Roitfeld changed her mind. Givenchy has long been a favorite at the magazine, so much so that Natasha Poly, who opened Tisci's Spring 2011 lineup, is back in the show's bleached eyebrows and tightly-braided minipigtails on the Vogue Paris November 2010 cover, as captured by Mario Sorrenti. The shoot went down earlier this month — we wonder if it happened right after the show? [Women Management]

>> W's new creative director Jody Quon has resigned after three full issues and six months at the magazine. "It was a mutual decision, and her position won't be filled," confirmed a W spokesperson. Quon's exit leaves design director Joseph Logan as editor Stefano Tonchi's top creative. "Everyone's position will be staying the same," the spokesperson added. Previously, Quon spent six years as New York's photo director, where she was known for her eye-catching covers with newsstand appeal; as The Daily noted, all four of Tonchi's covers so far have been served up on gray backgrounds. [DFR]

>> Matthew Williamson has been making the rounds, promoting his new namesake Rizzoli book, but next week, he says: "I’m going on holiday! I’m going to the Maldives. I genuinely really need a break. [I]’ve been flat-out for a good year and a half working on various projects." That includes his new diffusion line, Muse. So will we be seeing that on the runway when it launches next season, a la Zac Posen's Z Spoke? "Oh, God no. You’re making me draw my champagne at the thought! Not initially, anyway. We’ll have agents selling it, and we’re hoping it will have kind of a global presence, and then who knows? We’ll see how it goes." [DFR]

>> Anna Dello Russo's fragrance, "Beyond," hits Yoox.com exclusively in December and comes in a gold shoe-shaped bottle, reminiscent of Cinderella's slipper. “For 20 years no one noticed me," the 47-year-old stylist says. "I worked like Cinderella at the bottom of the pile. Finally, I’ve been invited to the ball.”

When news first broke that Dello Russo was developing Beyond, stores including Selfridges, Colette, Lane Crawford and the Japanese retailer Restir contacted Dello Russo. But she decided to sell only online: “I was born online and want to stay online, plus Yoox believed in me at the beginning." (A line of T-shirts featuring her image sold out in three hours on the retailer’s site.)

The bottle, which retails for $25, is meant to reference a Christmas ornament; a loop on the shoe's heel will allow it to be hung from a tree. “My fragrance is a gadget; it’s a mass-market toy," Dello Russo says. "I wanted to create something pop."

Speaking of pop, Dello Russo has received a flurry of commercial offers, but she says: “I want to do a record next. Everyone expects me to do a clothes line. It’s too obvious. I want to do the opposite.”