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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001019056-16-001352
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FILED AS OF DATE:		20160525
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20160525

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			STEVEN MADDEN, LTD.
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000913241
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	FOOTWEAR, (NO RUBBER) [3140]
		IRS NUMBER:				133588231
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		SD
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	000-23702
		FILM NUMBER:		161674361

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		52-16 BARNETT AVE
		CITY:			LONG ISLAND CITY
		STATE:			NY
		ZIP:			11104
		BUSINESS PHONE:		7184461800

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		52-16 BARNETT AVENUE
		CITY:			LONG ISLAND CITY
		STATE:			NY
		ZIP:			11104

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	MADDEN STEVEN LTD
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19931008
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SD</B></FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font: 12pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><B>Specialized
Disclosure Report</B></FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font: 24pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><B>STEVEN
MADDEN, LTD.</B></FONT></P>

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name of registrant as specified in its charter)</FONT></P>



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    incorporation or organization)</FONT>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD STYLE="width: 50%; text-align: center; border-bottom: Black 1pt solid">52-16 Barnett Avenue, Long Island City, New York</TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 50%; text-align: center; border-bottom: Black 1pt solid">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;11104</TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="text-align: center">(Address of principal executive offices)</TD>
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    <TD STYLE="text-align: center; border-bottom: Black 1pt solid">Arvind Dharia, Chief Financial Officer</TD>
    <TD STYLE="text-align: center; border-bottom: Black 1pt solid">(718) 446-1800</TD></TR>
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    <TD COLSPAN="2" STYLE="text-align: center">(Name and telephone number, including area code, of the person to contact in connection with this report.)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD></TR>
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appropriate box to indicate the rule pursuant to which this form is being filed, and provide the period to which the information
in this form applies:</FONT></P>


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Rule 13p-1 under the Securities Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.l3p-l) for the reporting period from January 1 to December 31,
2015.</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0 0 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in"><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><B>Section
1 - Conflict Minerals Disclosure</B></FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><B>Introduction</B></FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify"><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif">The
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the &ldquo;SEC&rdquo;) adopted Rule 13p-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
as amended, to implement reporting and disclosure requirements related to &ldquo;conflict minerals&rdquo; pursuant to Section
1502 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010. Rule 13p-1 imposes certain reporting obligations
on SEC registered issuers that manufacture or contract to manufacture products in which conflict minerals are necessary to the
functionality or production of the products. Conflict minerals are defined by the SEC as gold, columbite-tantalite (coltan), cassiterite
and wolframite, including their derivatives, which are limited to tantalum, tin and tungsten for purposes of the rule (collectively,
the &ldquo;Conflict Minerals&rdquo;). For products which contain necessary Conflict Minerals, the issuer must conduct in good
faith a reasonable country of origin inquiry designed to determine whether any of the Conflict Minerals contained in its products
originated or may have originated in the Democratic Republic of the Congo or an adjoining country (collectively, the &ldquo;Covered
Countries&rdquo;) and may contribute to or finance militant groups in the region. If, based on such inquiry, the issuer knows
or has reason to believe that any of the necessary Conflict Minerals contained in its products originated or may have originated
in a Covered Country and knows or has reason to believe that those necessary Conflict Minerals may not be solely from recycled
or scrap sources, the registrant must conduct due diligence to conclude if the necessary Conflict Minerals contained in the products
did or did not directly or indirectly finance or benefit armed groups in the Covered Countries. Products which do not contain
necessary Conflict Minerals that directly or indirectly finance or benefit armed groups in the Covered Countries are considered
&ldquo;DRC Conflict Free.&rdquo;</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify"><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif">The
disclosure for the year ended December 31, 2015 is presented in this report to comply with Rule 13p-1. Numerous terms in this
Form SD are defined in the SEC&rsquo;s instructions to Form SD and in SEC Release No. 34-67716 issued by the SEC on August 22,
2012 and the reader is referred to these documents for applicable definitions.</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><B>Item
1.01 Conflict Minerals Disclosure and Report</B></FONT></P>

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Overview </B></FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify"><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif">Steven
Madden, Ltd. and its subsidiaries (collectively, the &ldquo;Company&rdquo; or &ldquo;SML&rdquo;, and also referred to by &ldquo;we&rdquo;,
&ldquo;us&rdquo; or &ldquo;our&rdquo;) design, source, market and sell fashion-forward name brand and private label footwear for
women, men and children and name brand and private label fashion handbags and accessories and license our trademarks for use in
connection with the manufacture, marketing and sale of various products of our licensees. The Company&rsquo;s products are marketed
through our retail stores and our e-commerce websites, as well as better department stores, major department stores, mid-tier
department stores, specialty stores, luxury retailers, value-priced retailers, national chains, mass merchants and catalog retailers
throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico and South Africa. In addition, we have special distribution arrangements for the
marketing of our products in Asia, Australia, Europe, India, the Middle East, South and Central America and New Zealand. The Company
does not manufacture products, but we contract with vendors to have products manufactured for us by them. The Company does not
directly purchase raw materials or component parts for our products. Many of our products are made with component parts, such
as zippers, buttons and working buckles, that are necessary to the functionality of the products. These component parts are made
of metal and, in some cases, may contain Conflict Minerals. These component parts are purchased by the vendors with whom the Company
contracts for the manufacture of our products. In light of this, we rely on our direct vendors to provide information on the origin
of the Conflict Minerals, if any, contained in components and materials included in some of our products, including sources of
Conflict Minerals that have been supplied to them from lower tier suppliers.</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><B>Overview
of SML&rsquo;s Conflict Minerals Program and Reasonable Country of Origin Inquiry</B></FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify"><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif">In
2015, SML undertook a number of steps to determine whether any of the products which we contracted to be manufactured for the
Company included components or materials which contained Conflict Minerals in order to assess the applicability to the Company
of Rule 13p-1. These steps included (i) the continuous education of certain of our employees about Conflict Minerals and of our
reporting obligation; (ii) identifying our vendors for products which could contain Conflict Minerals; (iii) communicating our
vendor compliance manual, which contains Conflict Minerals compliance requirements for our suppliers, and obtaining Conflict Minerals
compliance commitments from our vendors; (iv) educating our vendors about the Conflict Minerals reporting obligation; (v) requesting
information from our vendors regarding the Conflict Minerals content of the products and/or components that they provide; and
(vi) collecting and analyzing the information from our vendors.</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify"><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif">As
noted above, we have developed a Conflict Minerals Policy, incorporated in our Vendor Compliance Manual, and implemented procedures
for supply chain diligence relating to Conflict Minerals. The Company&rsquo;s policy with respect to Conflict Minerals is as follows:</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in"><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><B><I>Conflict
Minerals</I></B></FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0 37.4pt 0 0.25in; text-align: justify"><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><I>SML
expects all of our Vendors to purchase the components used in our products and the materials utilized in the production of our
products from legitimate sources not involved in the funding of conflict. In particular, SML expects all of its Vendors, in full
compliance with the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 and the rules and regulations promulgated
thereunder, to avoid the use of &ldquo;conflict minerals&rdquo;, specifically, tantalum, tin, tungsten and gold, which may directly
or indirectly finance or benefit armed groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo or adjoining countries. This requirement
shall also be incorporated by reference into all purchase orders issued by SML, where the Vendor will warrant that all minerals
are conflict free, based on personal knowledge and/or written warranties provided by the vendor/supplier of component materials.
</I></FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in"><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif">Our
vendors must acknowledge their receipt and understanding of the Conflict Minerals Policy by executing an acknowledgement and agreement
to such effect and returning same to the Company. Additionally, as noted therein, the Conflict Minerals Policy is incorporated
into all purchase orders issued by SML and requires that the vendor warrant that all minerals are conflict free based on personal
knowledge and/or written warranties provided by the vendor/supplier of component materials.</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0 0 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in"><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif">Further,
for calendar year 2015, the Company undertook a supply-chain survey of direct relevant vendors, including a reasonable country
of origin inquiry, whereby such vendors were asked to complete and execute one of two certifications or contact appropriate members
of management if they were not able to complete and execute one of the two certifications. The vendors were asked to certify that,
based upon their knowledge of the products that they manufacture for SML and their inquiry of all of their suppliers of component
parts for SML products, either (i) none of the products that they manufacture for SML contains any Conflict Minerals or (ii) none
of such Conflict Minerals are sourced from any Covered Country or such Conflict Minerals are from recycled or scrap sources. We
have engaged with vendors through oral and written communications, as necessary, in order to encourage and facilitate cooperation
and response and, as such, we have obtained a 100% response rate; all of the Company&rsquo;s vendors executed and delivered one
or the other of the certifications.</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><B>Conclusion
Based on Reasonable Country of Origin Inquiry</B></FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify"><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif">Based
upon SML&rsquo;s review of the certifications and other communications with our vendors, we have concluded in good faith that
during 2015, based on the reasonable country of origin inquiry, we have no reason to believe that any of the Conflict Minerals
necessary to the functionality or production of any of our products may have originated in any of the Covered Countries or were
not solely from recycled or scrap sources and, as such, we believe that our products are &ldquo;DRC Conflict Free.&rdquo; Furthermore,
we have not identified any indicator or other risks that lead us to believe that any of the Conflict Minerals in our products
could be sourced from the Covered Countries and we consider that it is reasonable to rely upon the representations of our vendors.</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify"><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif">We
have provided the above-referenced information on our website at <U>www. stevemadden.com/investorrelations/corporategovernance</U>.</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify"><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif">SML&rsquo;s
success in making determinations about the presence of Conflict Minerals in our products depends upon numerous factors including,
among other things, the respective due diligence efforts of our vendors and their supply chain as well as their willingness to
provide requested information, representations and certifications. The Company&rsquo;s inability to obtain reliable information
from any party in our supply chain could have a material impact on our ability to report on the presence of Conflict Minerals
with accuracy. There can be no assurance that SML&rsquo;s vendors will continue to cooperate with our information inquiries and
requests for certifications or provide reliable and timely documentation or other evidence which the Company requires to enable
us to make our own reasonable determinations.</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: bold 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0 0 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in"><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><B>Item
1.02 Exhibit</B></FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0 0 10pt; text-indent: 0in"><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif">Not
required.</FONT></P>

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2 - Exhibits</B></FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><B>Item
2.01 Exhibits</B></FONT></P>

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to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf
by the duly authorized undersigned.</FONT></P>

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    <TD STYLE="width: 47%">STEVEN MADDEN, LTD.</TD></TR>
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    <TD>Date: May 24, 2016</TD>
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    <TD STYLE="border-bottom: Black 1pt solid">By: /s/ Arvind Dharia</TD></TR>
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    <TD>Arvind Dharia</TD></TR>
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    <TD>Chief Financial Officer</TD></TR>
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