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Nature of Business - Additional Information (Detail)	12 Months Ended
	Jan. 31, 2015 Store	Jan. 31, 2014 Store
Nature Of Business [Line Items]
Number of stores for operations	546us-gaap_NumberOfStores	511us-gaap_NumberOfStores
Number of department and specialty retailers distributed and sold apparel to	1,600urbn_NumberOfApparelSoldAndDistributed
United States
Nature Of Business [Line Items]
Number of stores for operations	464us-gaap_NumberOfStores / us-gaap_StatementGeographicalAxis = country_US	442us-gaap_NumberOfStores / us-gaap_StatementGeographicalAxis = country_US
Europe
Nature Of Business [Line Items]
Number of stores for operations	50us-gaap_NumberOfStores / us-gaap_StatementGeographicalAxis = us-gaap_EuropeMember	44us-gaap_NumberOfStores / us-gaap_StatementGeographicalAxis = us-gaap_EuropeMember
Canada
Nature Of Business [Line Items]
Number of stores for operations	32us-gaap_NumberOfStores / us-gaap_StatementGeographicalAxis = country_CA	25us-gaap_NumberOfStores / us-gaap_StatementGeographicalAxis = country_CA

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