/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>8725394
It's owner said in 2011:
"At first the fashion was called Spank! girls. Then just three months later fairy-kei was born. Some magazines said the pioneer of fairy-kei was Spank! but I don’t think so. For me Spank! girls and fairy-kei was very different. Fairy-kei includes a lot of different tastes. I think Zipper magazine coined “fairy-kei” and then a month later Cutie used the term and it spread from there."

So it was pretty much magazines inventing the term as originally it did look like fairies (pic related from mid 00's) but it evolved far beyond that.