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Impairment, Restructuring and Other Charges - Summary of Impairment and Restructuring Charges (Parenthetical) (Detail) | 12 Months Ended
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Feb. 03, 2024 USD ($) Store | Jan. 28, 2023 USD ($) | Jan. 29, 2022 USD ($)
Restructuring Cost And Reserve [Line Items] |  |  |  |  |
Impairment, restructuring and other charges |  | $ 141,695,000 |  | $ 22,209,000 | $ 11,944,000
Impairment and restructuring charges |  | 141,695,000 |  | 22,209,000 | 11,944,000
Impairment charges |  | 116,365,000 |  | 20,633,000 | 11,944,000
Definite-lived impairment charges |  | $ 40,533,000 | [1] | $ 0 | $ 0
Impairment, Long-Lived Asset, Held-for-Use, Statement of Income or Comprehensive Income [Extensible Enumeration] |  | Impairment and restructuring charges |  | Impairment and restructuring charges | Impairment and restructuring charges
Goodwill impairment |  | $ 39,598,000 | [2] | $ 0 | $ 0
Number of retail stores | Store |  | 1,500 |  |  |
International |  |  |  |  |
Restructuring Cost And Reserve [Line Items] |  |  |  |  |
Inventory write-down charges | [3] | $ 10,950,000 |  |  |
Impairment, restructuring and other charges |  | 21,800,000 |  |  |
Japan |  |  |  |  |
Restructuring Cost And Reserve [Line Items] |  |  |  |  |
Long-term asset impairment |  | 3,600,000 |  |  |
Impairment of operating lease ROU assets |  | 4,700,000 |  |  |
Hong Kong |  |  |  |  |
Restructuring Cost And Reserve [Line Items] |  |  |  |  |
Impairment and restructuring charges | [4] | 10,882,000 |  | 7,997,000 | 6,174,000
Long-term asset impairment |  | 1,300,000 |  |  |
Severance costs |  | 1,300,000 |  |  |
Corporate |  |  |  |  |
Restructuring Cost And Reserve [Line Items] |  |  |  |  |
Impairment and restructuring charges | [5] | 11,241,000 |  |  | 2,575,000
Severance costs |  | 6,000,000 |  |  |
Other assets |  | 5,200,000 |  |  | 2,600,000
Down Sizing Hong Kong Retail Operations | International |  |  |  |  |
Restructuring Cost And Reserve [Line Items] |  |  |  |  |
Severance costs |  |  |  | 500,000 |
Japan Market Exit Costs |  |  |  |  |
Restructuring Cost And Reserve [Line Items] |  |  |  |  |
Impairment and restructuring charges |  | $ 10,900,000 |  |  |
Number of retail stores | Store |  | 4 |  |  |
Japan Market Exit Costs | Japan |  |  |  |  |
Restructuring Cost And Reserve [Line Items] |  |  |  |  |
Impairment of operating lease ROU assets |  | $ 4,700,000 |  |  |
Retail Stores | International |  |  |  |  |
Restructuring Cost And Reserve [Line Items] |  |  |  |  |
Impairment and restructuring charges |  |  |  | 7,500,000 | 6,200,000
Retail Stores | Hong Kong |  |  |  |  |
Restructuring Cost And Reserve [Line Items] |  |  |  |  |
Impairment of operating lease ROU assets |  | 1,300,000 |  |  |
Quiet Platforms |  |  |  |  |
Restructuring Cost And Reserve [Line Items] |  |  |  |  |
Impairment, restructuring and other charges | [6] | 119,572,000 |  | 3,844,000 |
Impairment charges |  | 74,800,000 |  | 2,800,000 |
Definite-lived impairment charges |  | $ 40,500,000 |  |  |
Impairment, Intangible Asset, Finite-Lived, Statement of Income or Comprehensive Income [Extensible Enumeration] |  | Impairment and restructuring charges |  |  |
Long-term asset impairment |  | $ 24,700,000 |  |  |
Goodwill impairment |  | 39,600,000 |  |  |
Contract related charges |  | 4,900,000 |  |  |
Severance costs |  | 9,900,000 |  |  |
Impairment of operating lease ROU assets |  |  |  | 2,300,000 |
Quiet Platforms | Jacksonville, FL Distribution Center |  |  |  |  |
Restructuring Cost And Reserve [Line Items] |  |  |  |  |
Severance costs |  |  |  | 1,000,000 |
Customer Relationships | Quiet Platforms |  |  |  |  |
Restructuring Cost And Reserve [Line Items] |  |  |  |  |
Definite-lived impairment charges |  | 31,200,000 |  |  |
Trade Names | Quiet Platforms |  |  |  |  |
Restructuring Cost And Reserve [Line Items] |  |  |  |  |
Definite-lived impairment charges |  | 9,300,000 |  |  |
U.S. and Canada Store Asset |  |  |  |  |
Restructuring Cost And Reserve [Line Items] |  |  |  |  |
Impairment charges | [7] |  |  | 10,368,000 | 3,195,000
Impairment of operating lease ROU assets |  |  |  | 9,200,000 | 1,000,000
Store Property and Equipment | Retail Stores | Japan Market Exit Costs | Japan |  |  |  |  |
Restructuring Cost And Reserve [Line Items] |  |  |  |  |
Impairment charges |  | $ 3,600,000 |  |  |
Store Property and Equipment | U.S. and Canada Store Asset |  |  |  |  |
Restructuring Cost And Reserve [Line Items] |  |  |  |  |
Impairment charges |  |  |  | 1,200,000 | $ 2,200,000
Property and Equipment | Quiet Platforms | Jacksonville, FL Distribution Center |  |  |  |  |
Restructuring Cost And Reserve [Line Items] |  |  |  |  |
Impairment charges |  |  |  | $ 500,000 |
[1] | Impairment included $31.2 million of customer relationships and $9.3 million of trade names related to Quiet Platforms. Refer to Note 16 of the Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information
[2] | Goodwill for the Quiet Platforms reporting unit was fully impaired during Fiscal 2023. Refer to Note 16 of the Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information.
[3] | $11.0 million of inventory write-down charges related to our international businesses as further described in paragraph 1 of note (3) below.
[4] | $10.9 million of charges related to exiting the Japan market, including the closure of all 4 stores in January 2024, as well as impairment related to our Hong Kong retail operations. Of this amount, $4.7 million related to Japan ROU assets, $3.6 million of Japan store property and equipment, $1.3 million of Hong Kong store ROU assets, and $1.3 million of employee severance. All impairments were recorded due to insufficient prospective cash flows to support the asset values. Additionally, we recorded $11.0 million of inventory write-down charges related to restructuring our international operations, which was recorded separately in Cost of Sales and discussed in note (1) above. For Fiscal 2022, $7.5 million of store impairment due to insufficient prospective cash flows to support the asset values and $0.5 million of severance related to down sizing Hong Kong retail operations. For Fiscal 2021, $6.2 million of store impairment related to insufficient prospective cash flows to support the asset value.
[5] | $11.2 million, consisting of $6.0 million of employee severance related to corporate realignment and other asset impairment of $5.2 million of investments related to further strategic business changes. For Fiscal 2021, impairment of $2.6 million of other assets.
[6] | $119.6 million of charges related to the Quiet Platforms restructuring. Of this amount, we impaired definite lived intangible assets of $40.5 million consisting of $31.2 million of customer relationships and $9.3 million of trade names. We also impaired $39.6 million of goodwill. We recorded $24.7 million of long-term asset impairment primarily related to technology which is no longer a part of the long-term strategy. All impairments were recorded due to insufficient prospective cash flows to support the asset value, resulting from the restructuring of Quiet Platforms. We recorded $9.9 million of severance based on this revised strategy. We also recorded $4.9 million of contract related charges. For Fiscal 2022, impairment of $2.8 million consisting of $2.3 million of ROU asset and $0.5 million of property and equipment related to the closure of the Jacksonville, FL distribution center and severance of $1.0 million related to employees of that distribution center. The Jacksonville distribution center was replaced with a higher productivity location in Atlanta, GA.
[7] | For Fiscal 2022, $10.4 million of impairment charges, consisting of $9.2 million of ROU assets and $1.2 million of store property and equipment related to insufficient cash flows to support the asset value in the U.S. and Canada. For Fiscal 2021, $3.2 million consisting of $2.2 million of store property and equipment and $1.0 million of ROU assets related to insufficient cash flows to support the asset value.

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