"At Steve Madden, the inside buzz is as much about the anticipated return this Spring of founder and visionary, Steve Madden (seen above), as it is about the hot new styles. Madden, who has spent the last two and a half years in Coleman Federal Prison, where he served out a sentence for the crime of stock manipulation, will return to the company he created in 1991, as creative director, working on a series of new initiatives, including the complete redesign of the company's seven- year-old advertising and branding campaign.”