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| **Noncash Investing and Financing Transactions [Abstract]** |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
| NONCASH INVESTING AND FINANCING TRANSACTIONS                | NONCASH INVESTING AND FINANCING TRANSACTIONSOmitted from the Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows for 2014 were capital expenditures related to property, plant and equipment of $17.0 million, which will not be paid until 2015. The Company paid $13.6 million in cash during 2014 related to property, plant and equipment that was acquired in 2013. This amount was omitted from the Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows for 2013. The Company paid $4.2 million in cash during 2013 related to property, plant and equipment that was acquired in 2012. This amount was omitted from the Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows for 2012.Omitted from purchases of property, plant and equipment in the Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows for 2014, 2013 and 2012 were $4.2 million, $7.5 million and $18.2 million, respectively, of assets acquired through capital leases.The Company recorded increases to goodwill of $50.5 million, $51.0 million and $51.7 million during 2014, 2013 and 2012, respectively, related to liabilities incurred for contingent purchase price payments to Mr. Calvin Klein. Such amounts are not due or paid in cash until 45 days subsequent to the Company’s applicable quarter end. As such, during 2014, 2013 and 2012, the Company paid $51.1 million, $52.8 million and $51.0 million, respectively, in cash related to contingent purchase price payments to Mr. Calvin Klein that were recorded as additions to goodwill during the periods the liabilities were incurred.During the first quarter of 2014, the Company recorded a loss of $17.5 million to write-off previously capitalized debt issuance costs in connection with the amendment and restatement of the 2013 facilities and the related redemption of its 7 3/8% senior notes due 2020.Omitted from investments in unconsolidated affiliates in the Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows for 2014 were noncash increases in the investment balances related to the Company’s Calvin Klein Australia joint venture and Calvin Klein India joint venture of $3.7 million and $6.2 million, respectively, resulting from the deconsolidation of these entities during the first quarter of 2014. Please see Note 5, “Investments in Unconsolidated Affiliates,” and Note 6, “Redeemable Non-Controlling Interest,” for a further discussion.During the first quarter of 2013, the Company recorded a loss of $5.8 million to write-off previously capitalized debt issuance costs in connection with the modification and extinguishment of the 2011 facilities.During the first quarter of 2013, the Company issued 7.7 million shares of its common stock, par value $1.00 per share (of which 416 thousand shares were issued from treasury stock), as part of the consideration paid to the former stockholders of Warnaco in connection with the acquisition, which resulted in an increase in common stock of $7.3 million, an increase in additional paid in capital of $888.9 million and a decrease in treasury stock of $30.3 million. In addition, the Company issued awards valued at $39.8 million to replace outstanding stock awards made by Warnaco to its employees, which for accounting purposes are included in the total acquisition consideration. Also included in the acquisition consideration was the elimination of a $9.2 million pre-acquisition liability to Warnaco.During 2012, the holders of the Company’s Series A convertible preferred stock converted an aggregate of 8 thousand shares of such convertible preferred stock into 4.2 million shares of the Company’s common stock, resulting in a decrease in Series A convertible preferred stock of $188.6 million, an increase in common stock of $4.2 million, and an increase in additional paid in capital of $184.4 million. Please see Note 12, “Stockholders’ Equity.”     |

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