A dress designer and shop owner in Occoquan, Virginia, is at a loss after a bizarre encounter with a local woman who called police at her boutique for displaying a President Trump sign in front of her store certifying her First Amendment rights. It’s late at night.
Andre Soriano, the Atelier dress designer known for curating the “Make America Great Again” dress worn by singer-songwriter Joy Villa to the 2017 Grammy Awards, has chosen from his own dresses to dress in front of Trump. I received a legal notice that I have to remove signs supporting the president. work.
“I actually started the flag war here in Occoquan, Virginia,” Soriano told FOX News Digital during a video interview.
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Andre Soriano designed the dress that singer-songwriter Joy Villa wore to the 2017 Grammy Awards. (Fox News Digital, Getty Images)
Soriano said the first few minutes of the encounter were pleasant, but almost immediately he faced outrage and backlash against the patriotic decorations in front of the store.
“The reason I keep Trump’s dress outside is so I don’t run into him. [this]” Soriano said.
Soriano’s friend, political activist Audra Johnson, sent a text message to Soriano asking for his help, then recorded the rush and posted it on social media.
“I have a video of her hiding in the bushes,” Johnson told FOX News Digital. “I don’t know what she was doing.”
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According to the two, the woman was crying hysterically on the street and they actually called the police. One officer escorted the woman from the store’s entrance, and Johnson said she was taken to a local restaurant to “calm down.”
“As Americans, as a First Amendment to our great country, we put a sign in our homes that allows us as individuals, without prejudice, whether it be religion, politics, or anything that we feel, to be honest. You can express yourself by expressing who you are. It doesn’t matter who you are,” Soriano said. “That’s freedom of artistic expression, and in America we’re supposed to be free, and now we can’t even express that.”
Soriano and Johnson live in the residence above the store. After the city asked him to remove the pro-Trump sign from his store, the city hung the sign from his home, even though it had been hung for years before the incident.
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Joy Villa is known for wearing Hollywood’s controversial dresses to red carpet events. Her first dress was the “Make America Great Again” dress that Andre Soriano designed for her in 2017 after Donald Trump was elected president. (Getty Images)
However, they were cited again to remove some, but not all, signs.
“We’re just doing everything we can to avoid being hit with a fine that we can’t pay,” Johnson said.
“We’re following the rules,” Soriano said. “We don’t disrespect anyone.”
The business owner is appalled by the ordinance because he believes America is “the land of freedom, not the land of people’s ideas.”
“I’m an American designer,” Soriano said. “I am free to express and create whatever I want.”
Soriano, who is originally from the Philippines, said his mother moved the family to the United States when he was a teenager to pursue the American dream.
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A friend of political activist Andre Soriano captured on camera a woman who was holding a pro-Trump sign in Soriano’s gown shop, had a seizure and called the police. (Andre Soriano)
“I love America,” Soriano said.
The fashion designer, previously employed by stars including Rihanna, Pharrell Williams, Miley Cyrus and Courtney Love, said she was blacklisted when she designed the infamous 2017 MAGA dress. Ta.
“That’s when our lives changed,” he said. “We received death threats.”
“There are a lot of very divisive celebrities in Hollywood, and they didn’t really like President Trump,” Soriano said.
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The creative director added that he had lost friends, clients and potential business opportunities in California.
Johnson was also blacklisted as a stage and screen actress after she was photographed marching at Rosa Parks Circle in Grand Rapids, Michigan, holding a sign that read “Trump is your president.” It was published in
“We’re in an industry where you can’t just say what you want to say and what you feel,” Johnson said.
“We are unconventional.”
Gabriele Regalbuto is a senior SEO editor at Fox News Digital. Gabriele holds a degree in Journalism and Communications from West Virginia University. She has worked on content production for newspapers, magazines and digital platforms. At Fox, we’ve helped cover breaking news such as the 2024 presidential election cycle, the 2022 midterm elections, the death of Queen Elizabeth II, and the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine.
