How Connolly sexed up the car shoe

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“I think I was the first shop in England to bring in the car shoe,” says Isabel Ettedgui. The creative director of Connolly is referring to the slip-on that, thanks to its bobbled soles and elegant design, was favoured by the likes of Gianni Agnelli and John F Kennedy when at the wheel. Ettedgui, who first clocked the style in Monaco, stocked it in her first…