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Segment Reporting - Additional Information (Detail)	3 Months Ended
	Apr. 30, 2013 Segment Brand Website Catalog Store	Apr. 30, 2012
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Number of department and specialty retailers	1,400
Percentage of sales that no customer comprises	10.00%
Retail Operations
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Number of reporting segments	2
Number of brands	5
Number of stores	482
Number of catalogs	5
Number of websites	10
Percentage of net sales	94.00%	94.00%

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Retail Segment net sales as a percentage of total consolidated Net Sales.

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Number of Department and Specialty Retailers

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For an entity that discloses a concentration risk in relation to quantitative amount, which serves as the "benchmark" (or denominator) in the equation, this concept represents the concentration percentage derived from the division.

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Number of operating segments. An operating segment is a component of an enterprise: (a) that engages in business activities from which it may earn revenues and incur expenses (including revenues and expenses relating to transactions with other components of the same enterprise), (b) whose operating results are regularly reviewed by the enterprise's chief operating decision maker to make decisions about resources to be allocated to the segment and assess its performance, and (c) for which discrete financial information is available. An operating segment may engage in business activities for which it has yet to earn revenues, for example, start-up operations may be operating segments before earning revenues.

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