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Segment Reporting - Additional Information (Detail)	3 Months Ended
	Apr. 30, 2015 Segment Brand Store	Apr. 30, 2014
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Number of major customers exceeding ten percentage thresholds	0urbn_NumberOfMajorCustomersExceedingTenPercentageThreshold
Retail Operations
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Number of reporting segments	2us-gaap_NumberOfOperatingSegments / us-gaap_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis = urbn_RetailOperationsMember
Number of brands	5urbn_NumberOfBrands / us-gaap_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis = urbn_RetailOperationsMember
Number of stores	552us-gaap_NumberOfStores / us-gaap_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis = urbn_RetailOperationsMember
Percentage of net sales	93.00%urbn_NetSalesAsPercentageOfConsolidatedNetSales / us-gaap_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis = urbn_RetailOperationsMember	93.00%urbn_NetSalesAsPercentageOfConsolidatedNetSales / us-gaap_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis = urbn_RetailOperationsMember
Wholesale Operations
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Number of stores	1,600us-gaap_NumberOfStores / us-gaap_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis = urbn_WholesaleOperationsMember

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

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Number Of Brands

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Number Of Major Customers Exceeding Ten Percentage Threshold

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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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Represents the number of stores.

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