Shoe Enough

In almost any situation, the insanity of women and their shoes should not be supported. But to every rule there is an exception and so it is that fatherhood trumps enabling female looniness and (very often) male torture. And so, WD salutes Steve Madden, 51, convicted fraud, whoracious shoe pimp, but father of 16-month-old twins, son Jack and daughter Stevie. His business is growing, his life apparently on track and two kids predestined to walk in their father's shoes as they grow.

** With children comes humility, perhaps saving SM from foot-in-mouth disease that has plagued him in the past. **