Lease Accounting

The Company primarily leases its showrooms, advertising, licensing, sales and merchandising offices, remote distribution and warehousing facilities and retail and factory outlet store locations under operating lease agreements expiring on various dates through January 2039. The Company also leases some of its equipment as well as computer hardware and software under operating and finance lease agreements expiring on various dates through May 2027.

The Company determines whether an arrangement is a lease at inception of the agreement and reassesses that conclusion if the agreement is modified. The term of the Company’s leases represents the non-cancelable period of the lease, including any rent-free periods and any options to renew, extend or terminate the lease that the Company is reasonably certain to exercise. The Company determines the term of each lease at lease commencement and revisits that term in subsequent periods if a triggering event occurs which would require reassessment.

Leases with an initial contractual term in excess of 12 months are accounted for as either an operating or finance lease based on certain criteria. Under this new guidance, leases the Company previously referred to as “capital leases” are now referred to as “finance leases.” In connection with the adoption of the new lease standard, the Company elected to apply the group of practical expedients which allows the Company to carry forward its identification of existing contracts that are or contain leases, its historical lease classification and its initial direct costs for existing leases. The Company has also elected to recognize leases with an initial term of 12 months or less on a straight-line basis without recognizing a right-to-use asset or operating lease liability.

The Company’s lease agreements primarily provide for lease payments based on a minimum annual rental amount, a percentage of annual sales volume, periodic adjustments related to inflation or a combination of such lease payments. Certain retail store leases provide for rents based upon the minimum annual rental amount and a percentage of annual sales volume, generally ranging from 3% to 23%, when specific sales volumes are exceeded. The Company’s retail concession leases also provide for rents primarily based upon a percentage of annual sales volume which average approximately 33% of annual sales volume. Some of these leases require the Company to make periodic payments for insurance, property taxes, sales promotion and common area maintenance charges. The Company has elected the practical expedient to not separate non-lease components from lease components in the measurement of liabilities for its real estate leases. Lease liabilities are recognized at the present value of the fixed lease payments, reduced by landlord incentives using a discount rate based on similarly secured borrowings available to the Company. Lease right-of-use assets are recognized based on the initial present value of the fixed lease payments, reduced by landlord incentives, plus any direct costs from executing the leases. Variable lease payments are expensed as incurred and do not factor into the measurement of the applicable lease liability or lease right-of-use asset. Lease right-of-use assets are amortized over the life of the lease and tested for impairment in the same manner as long-lived assets used in operations. Leasehold improvements are capitalized at cost and amortized over the lesser of their expected useful life or the lease term.

The Company’s lease agreements do not contain any material residual value guarantees or material restrictive covenants. In addition to the amounts as disclosed below, the Company has estimated additional operating lease commitments of approximately $26 million for leases where the Company has not yet taken possession of the underlying asset as of May 4, 2019. As such, the related operating lease right-of-use assets and operating lease liabilities have not been recognized in the Company’s condensed consolidated balance sheet as of May 4, 2019.

As of May 4, 2019, the components of leases and lease costs are as follows (in thousands):



	Balance Sheet Location	May 4, 2019
Assets
Operating	Operating lease right-of-use assets	$	921,084
Finance	Property and equipment, net	15,197
Total lease assets		$	936,281

Liabilities
Current:
Operating	Current portion of operating lease liabilities	$	217,110
Finance	Current portion of borrowings and finance lease obligations	1,976
Noncurrent:
Operating	Long-term operating lease liabilities	764,202
Finance	Long-term debt and finance lease obligations, net	14,591
Total lease liabilities		$	997,879



	Income Statement Location	Three Months Ended May 4, 2019
Operating lease costs¹	Cost of product sales	$	58,816
Operating lease costs¹	Selling, general and administrative expenses	5,264
Finance lease costs
Amortization of leased assets²	Cost of product sales	43
Amortization of leased assets²	Selling, general and administrative expenses	543
Interest on lease liabilities	Interest expense	287
Variable lease costs¹	Cost of product sales	24,825
Variable lease costs¹	Selling, general and administrative expenses	827
Short-term lease costs¹	Selling, general and administrative expenses	212
Total lease costs		$	90,817

__________________________________

Notes:


¹	Rental expense for all property and equipment operating leases during the three months ended May 5, 2018 aggregated $72.2 million, including percentage rent of $16.4 million. During the three months ended May 5, 2018, the Company also recognized insurance, taxes, sales promotion and common area maintenance charges totaling $14.9 million related to its operating leases.


²	Amortization of leased assets related to finance leases are included in depreciation expense in the Company’s condensed consolidated statements of loss.

Maturities of the Company’s operating and finance lease liabilities as of May 4, 2019 are as follows (in thousands):



Maturity of Lease Liabilities	Operating Leases		Finance Leases		Total
2020 ¹	$	191,782	$	2,309	$	194,091
2021	196,564		2,819		199,383
2022	182,630		3,074		185,704
2023	151,931		2,752		154,683
2024	126,256		2,620		128,876
After 2024	238,400		7,625		246,025
Total lease payments	1,087,563		21,199		1,108,762
Less: Interest	106,251		4,632		110,883
Present value of lease liabilities	$	981,312	$	16,567	$	997,879

__________________________________

Notes:


¹	Represents the maturity of lease liabilities for the remainder of fiscal 2020 and does not include payments made during the three months ended May 4, 2019.

Other supplemental information as of May 4, 2019 is as follows (dollars in thousands):



Lease Term and Discount Rate	May 4, 2019
Weighted-average remaining lease term (years)
Operating leases	6.0 years
Finance leases	7.3 years
Weighted-average discount rate
Operating leases	3.6	%
Finance leases	7.2	%



Supplemental Cash Flow Information	Three Months Ended May 4, 2019
Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of lease liabilities
Operating cash flows from operating leases	$	62,082
New operating right-of-use assets obtained in exchange for lease liabilities	68,804