On Wednesday morning, the day before GQ’s second annual Global Creativity Awards, the Italian designer Francesco Risso wields a plastic shoe horn as he paces, rather energetically, through racks of hand-painted clothing inside the Condé Nast fashion closet. Risso is reciting the remarks he’ll deliver during the ceremony. As he practices, he punctuates his syllables by rapping the shoe horn against any available surface: a tabletop, his palm, the hard back of a chair. He taps out the words about... Read this story