Business Acquisition, Terms, Extension If Conditions Satisfied, Number Of Days

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Business Acquisition, Terms, Termination Fee Payable

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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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Price of a single share of a number of saleable stocks paid or offered to be paid in a business combination.

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This element represents acquisition-related costs incurred to effect a business combination which costs have been expensed during the period. Such costs include finder's fees; advisory, legal, accounting, valuation, and other professional or consulting fees; general administrative costs, including the costs of maintaining an internal acquisitions department; and may include costs of registering and issuing debt and equity securities.

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Reference 1: http://fasb.org/us-gaap/role/ref/legacyRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 805
-SubTopic 10
-Section 25
-Paragraph 23
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=116868678&loc=d3e1043-128460

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Entry into Merger Agreement - (Details) - Tiffany & Co.	3 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
Entry into Merger Agreement - (Details) - Tiffany & Co.	Jan. 31, 2020 USD ($)	Jan. 31, 2020 USD ($)	Nov. 24, 2019 USD ($) day $ / shares
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Merger related expenses	$ 21,200,000	$ 21,200,000
LVMH Moet Hennessy - Louis Vuitton SE
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Acquisition share price (USD per share) \| $ / shares			$ 135.00
Number of days of extension if conditions are satisfied \| day			90
Merger terms, termination fee			$ 575,000,000.0