Nike had paused its partnership with the artist after allegations of abuse from his former studio staff.

Less than two years after former studio staff made damning allegations against Tom Sachs of a toxic workplace rife with sexual harassment and bullying, the artist has announced a September release date for his Mars Yard 3.0 sneakers with Nike.

The company unveiled the first Mars Yard shoes in 2012, and followed with 2.0 in 2017. Sachs’s most recent release with Nike was the more affordable General Purpose Shoe introduced in 2022—but then the company appeared to end the partnership.

The first rumble of trouble for Sachs came with, of all things, an anonymous job posting for an assistant position to an “high-profile art world family” that would be responsible for everything from childcare to  “dog systems” and “closet systems”—language that tipped off Sachs staffers that the listing came from him and his wife, former Gagosian director Sarah Hoover.

The demanding job and its relatively meager pay of just $65,000 to $95,000 met with ridicule. It also sent former staffers crawling out of the woodwork, eager to share—albeit anonymously—their negative experiences working for the couple.

The complaints, first published in Curbed and then in an article by this reporter, were serious, and Nike quickly took notice. One complaint was about Sachs wearing only his underwear in a Zoom meeting with Nike. (The branding Sachs used for Nike hinted at issues with the kind of work environment he maintained, such as the phrase “work like a slave” initially appearing on the Mars Yard 2.0 box.)