Apologise for the late response. Wanted some time to think before I comment, as rash knee jerk commenting got me in this situation in the first place.
Want to also apologise to all the people that wanted to get the set and all my vendors, especially Cannon. Cannon has been very supportive from the beginning, put in a lot of work to get it to GB and was even willing to transfer all their work to another potential lead vendor after deciding to pulling out.
Cannon made the right decision as my rash comments put all the vendors and I in possible legal exposure. No matter how small the actual exposure was, it was just not worth it and I am grateful Cannon made the right call.
I understand everyone will have their own opinion on the matter and I respect their right to their own opinion. I acknowledge I made rash and inappropriate comments trying to change the narrative away from my set and the Nike/cotton controversy through making comments on infringing on Nike when in reality I was not infringing on their IP. (ref:
https://www.gerbenlaw.com/trademarks/footwear/nike/#75975988 thanks esc lab for posting this for anyone that wants to understand what nike's IP generally covers and why my design intentionally stays away from swoosh, nike and air) It was never my intention to infringe on Nike's IP and I made sure I didn't when I designed it. Thus I also owe Nike an apology for trying to deflect attention to them.
I apologise again to the people that wanted my set but my rash and narrow minded focus on hoping to save my creation "baby" from all the undue (nike/cotton) hate it was getting instead ironically led to its ultimate demise and them not being able to get it.
My primary objective now is to come up with a set to cater to people that have reached out to me through reddit and my discord in the past 24 hours telling me they still hope to get my set. For this to happen I have decided to abandon 95neon as it has too much legal baggage attached for it to succeed and I must go back to the drawing board.
My new set will have less association with air max 95 and not infringe on any of Nike's IP
I understand that for many people this might not be the set that they will want and from this whole debacle I have definitely learnt you can't change people's opinion. So instead of worrying about people who don't want my set, I'm going to instead put my focus on serving the people that want it as there is no way to please everyone (also learnt this the hard way this time).
I hope my new set will meet my design's supporters and the respective standard of each vendor I originally worked with so that we can get to a new GB.
Finally, regardless of whether it changes anything I believe I should apologise to anyone that I have caused distress to in anyway from this debacle as I wasted their time being distressed.
If anyone has any questions or issues please contact me directly. Learnt my lesson that its not possible to talk to many people at once on sensitive subjects.