“Maybe is Moscato,” she muses, turning the bottle around to peer at the label over her glasses. It’s just past 9pm on a Saturday and Kim offers glasses of pink champagne as guests come in. A candelabra adorned with crystals sits next to Kim on a glass table. Lockers, towels and a coat rack sit to the left. The entrance lobby is painted a smart fawn colour. Once inside KZ, it’s like stepping through a portal. She’s wearing a black and pink corset, caged around her ribs. The tall, curvaceous blond, who is “past her 40s,” has a mischievous glint in her eye.
“That’s on purpose,” Kim, one of the co-owners of Kink Zone (KZ) says, laughing. It’s a darkened shopfront at the end of a nondescript alcove in the Canberra suburb of Fyshwick, best known for selling porn and fireworks.įrom the outside the building looks like nothing much.
