Steve Madden, in full Steven Madden, (born 1958, Queens, New York, U.S.), American shoe designer who founded Steven Madden, Ltd., a manufacturer of moderately priced shoes and accessories, marketed mostly to young women and girls. In 2002–05 he was imprisoned for financial misconduct.

Madden, the son of a textile manufacturer and a housewife, was a native of New York’s Long Island. He was born in the New York City borough of Queens and grew up in the Five Towns region of adjacent Nassau county. While still in high school he got a job in a shoe store and took an immediate liking to the footwear business. After two years of study at the University of Miami, he moved to New York City, where he sold shoes for two years. In 1980 he began working for L.J. Simone, a wholesale firm, where he learned how shoes were manufactured and marketed. After leaving Simone in 1988, Madden and a partner attempted to launch Souliers, a brand of women’s shoes, for the MCM footwear company, but this venture was unsuccessful.

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