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Segment Reporting - Additional Information (Detail)	3 Months Ended
	Apr. 30, 2017 Customer Outlet Restaurant Brand Store Segment	Apr. 30, 2016
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Number of reporting segments | Segment	2
Number of major customers exceeding ten percentage thresholds | Customer	0
Retail Operations
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Number of brands | Brand	6
Percentage of net sales	90.70%	91.80%
Number of restaurants | Restaurant	12
Retail Operations | Urban Outfitters
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Number of stores	242
Retail Operations | Anthropologie Group
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Number of stores	225
Retail Operations | Free People
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Number of stores	130
Wholesale Operations
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Number of stores | Outlet	1,900

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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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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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