Paris dresses up its windows for the season

Paris

CROUCHED precariously amid cascades of fishing line, behind a drum kit dusted with iridescent artificial snow, Jean-Claude Dehix ministered patiently to a rebellious marionette, oblivious to the businessman on the other side of the plate glass window who was taking a last, lazy drag of his morning cigarette.

"Who's the boss here, chérie?" Mr Dehix scowled, as he repeatedly adjusted a filament connecting a cam-driven mechanism in the ceiling of the display to the wrist of his Lilliputian charge, who appeared determined to strum away at a toy guitar to her own unscripted rhythm.

The puppet - part of a gaggle of mop-headed rockers in tiny Burberry trench coats - is one of around 200 animated figurines installed by Mr Dehix this year across 24 windows on Paris' bustling Boule…