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Number of franchisee-owned stores.

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Number of major customers exceeding ten percentage threshold.

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Description of the types of products and services from which the reportable segment derives its revenue.

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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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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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Segment Reporting - Additional Information (Detail)	12 Months Ended
Segment Reporting - Additional Information (Detail)	Jan. 31, 2022 Store Segment Restaurant Customer	Jan. 31, 2021 Store	Jan. 31, 2020
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Number of reporting segments \| Segment	3
Number of stores	682	644
Number of major customers exceeding ten percentage thresholds \| Customer	0
Retail Operations
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Percentage of net sales	93.40%	93.60%	91.60%
Number of restaurants \| Restaurant	10
Net sales as percentage of consolidated net sales	93.40%	93.60%	91.60%
Retail Operations \| Urban Outfitters
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Number of stores	261
Number of franchisee-owned stores	2
Retail Operations \| Anthropologie Group
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Number of stores	238
Number of franchisee-owned stores	1
Retail Operations \| Free People
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Number of stores	173
Wholesale Operations
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Percentage of net sales	5.50%	5.70%	8.20%
Net sales as percentage of consolidated net sales	5.50%	5.70%	8.20%
Nuuly Operations
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Percentage of net sales	1.10%
Segment net sales description	Nuuly segment net sales accounted for approximately 1.1% of consolidated net sales for fiscal 2022 and less than 1.0% of consolidated net sales
Net sales as percentage of consolidated net sales	1.10%
Nuuly Operations \| Maximum
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Percentage of net sales		1.00%	1.00%
Net sales as percentage of consolidated net sales		1.00%	1.00%