specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/Plans
provider: Ascena Retail Group
providerId: ascena-retail-group
created: '2026-05-04'
# Provenance stamped 2026-08-11: this artifact was written by the API Evangelist
# bulk sweep dated 2026-05-04, not harvested from the provider. See roadmap#35.
method: generated
modified: '2026-05-05'
reconciled: false
tags:
  - Retail
  - Fashion
  - Apparel
  - E-Commerce
description: Ascena Retail Group ceased to exist as an operating entity after its July 2020 Chapter 11
  filing; brands (Ann Taylor, LOFT, Lane Bryant, Catherines) were sold to Sycamore Partners and others
  and now operate under the Knitwell Group umbrella. There is no Ascena public API or pricing.
sources:
  - https://knitwellgroup.com/
notes: Ascena no longer operates. Successor entity is Knitwell Group, which also does not publish a
  public developer/API program. This is a historical record artifact.
plans:
  - id: ascena-retail-group-defunct
    name: Defunct Entity (No API Program)
    type: enterprise
    description: Ascena Retail Group is no longer an operating entity; no API or developer program
      exists or is succeeded.
    entries:
      - label: API Access
        name: api_access
        type: subscription
        metric: varies
        limit: -1
        timeFrame: month
        geo: US
        unit: 1
        price: not applicable (entity defunct)
        userMultiplied: false
    elements:
      - name: Defunct Entity
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com
    url: https://apievangelist.com
x-canonical:
  generated: '2026-10-08'
  vocabulary: all/0-working/economics/plans-canonical.yml
  models:
  - subscription
  units:
  - negotiated
  plans:
  - name: Defunct Entity (No API Program)
    access: enterprise
    model: subscription
    model_how: derived
    units:
    - negotiated
    periods:
    - month