In the same year, seeking more capital, he entrusted his company’s initial public offering of stock to the Long Island securities firm of Stratton Oakmont, where Danny Porush, a childhood friend, was a partner. In 1993 he opened his first retail store. His first major success, the Mary Lou, was a variation on the classic Mary Jane style of women’s shoe. He started out by having 500 pairs of shoes made to his own design and selling them to New York City-area stores from the trunk of his car. In 1990 Madden founded Steven Madden, Ltd. 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. Simone, a wholesale firm, where he learned how shoes were manufactured and marketed. After two years of study at the University of Miami, he moved to New York City, where he sold shoes for two years. While still in high school he got a job in a shoe store and took an immediate liking to the footwear business.
He was born in the New York City borough of Queens and grew up in the Five Towns region of adjacent Nassau county. Madden, the son of a textile manufacturer and a housewife, was a native of New York’s Long Island. In 2002–05 he was imprisoned for financial misconduct.
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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.