Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have been named the Best Dressed Couple by fashion bible Vanity Fair.

The new parents, who welcomed twins Knox and Vivienne to their growing family last month, topped the prestigious 2008 list, beating out competition from Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore, and soccer star David Beckham and his wife Victoria.

Pitt was commended for his flawless red carpet appearances, while Jolie was praised for her stylish maternity wardrobe.

Meanwhile, Sex and the City star Sarah Jessica Parker, Oscar winner Tilda Swinton, socialite Ivanka Trump and France’s first lady, model/singer Carla Bruni, made the Best Dressed Women poll. U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama’s wife Michelle was also named on the list.

The Best Dressed Men category featured the likes of Los Angeles Galaxy star Beckham, James Bond actor Daniel Craig, rapper Kanye West and legendary fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld.

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The London Daily Mail reports this morning after a fierce contest for the UK rights to the first pictures of Brad and Angelina’s twins — Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline, Hello! magazine has outbid it’s rival OK! reportedly buying the first photos for a cool $15 million dollars!

According to the British paper, People magazine has won the North American rights to the coveted photos. It was People magazine that published the first photos of Shiloh Nouvel, Angelina and Brad’s first biological child.

The New York Post is also reporting the photo shoot took place last weekend with the proud parents and the new twins!

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Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt turned to fertility treatments to quickly conceive twins Knox and Vivienne.

“They conceived through in vitro fertilization,” a well-placed source within their camp tells Us. “They both desperately wanted more babies soon.”

The chance of having fraternal twins at Angelina’s age (33) naturally is under 1 percent; with in vitro, the chances are 25 percent. Says Dr. Arthur Wisot of L.A.’s Reproductive Medical Group (who did not treat the couple), “We live in an era of reproductive freedom, so anybody can do anything they want within legal limits.”

The actress chose the procedure (which can cost around $12,000 a pop) so “she wouldn’t have to deal with the stress of trying to get pregnant,” the source tells Us. “She could just knock it out.”

Indeed, Jolie has spoken about her goal to do just that.

“If we’re going to have 10 kids, we’d like to raise them while we’re young,” she told Elle U.K. last year. Brad Pitt turns 45 on December 18.

A source adds: “They were too impatient.”

Knox and Vivienne – born in Nice, France on July 12 – join the couple’s adopted brood of Maddox, 6, Pax, 4, Zahara, 3, and biological daughter Shiloh, 2.

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Brad Pitt is threatening legal action against any publication which prints photos of his family at home in France.

The move comes after paparazzi photos of the movie star and his family relaxing at their summer retreat hit the internet earlier this week, and Pitt learned the bosses of the agency behind the shots were offering the images to tabloids.

Pitt’s lawyer, Yael Holtkamp, has served the agency with a cease and desist order, and claims the photos were “surreptitiously” taken by photographers with “highly powerful telephoto lenses”.

The shots feature Pitt with new mom Angelina Jolie, his parents and their children playing in the garden of their rented French chateau.

Pitt and Jolie chose to spend the summer at Chateau Miraval in Provence because of the privacy and exclusivity the wine resort offered.

Holtkamp insists the publication of the photos violates the family’s privacy rights.

The paparazzi agency behind the photos has already agreed to stop selling them and the images have been removed from its website.

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Angelina Jolie has left hospital in France – fooling the paparazzi to bring her newborn twins home without interruption.

Jolie gave birth to son Knox Leon and daughter Vivienne Marcheline by Caesarian section at the Fondation Lenval hospital in France on Saturday.

And after a brief stay, the Hollywood actress and her partner Brad Pitt left the medical center early on Saturday morning – slipping out the back entrance to avoid the crowds of photographers awaiting the couple’s departure.

A statement from hospital officials has thanked the pair for choosing to host the birth there.

It reads, “Mrs (sic) Angelina Jolie left the clinic Santa Maria of Fondation Lenval early in the morning, on July 19. The mother and her babies are doing very well. The general management of Lenval and Santa Maria want to thank the team for the attention and care they pay to the family, and those of the journalists around the hospital who did their best to respect their privacy.”
The twins are the fifth and sixth additions to Jolie and Pitt’s family – the couple has three adopted children, Maddox, six, Pax, four, three year old Zahara, and biological daughter Shiloh, two.

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She’s a big sister now! And Shiloh Jolie-Pitt was on her best — and sweetest — behavior when she was introduced to her new twin siblings the day after their emotional delivery on July 12.

As her weary parents, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, beamed with pride, the wide-eyed 2-year-old greeted tiny brother Knox Leon and sister Vivienne Marcheline with smiles and kisses.

“They weren’t planning on having Shiloh see Angie and the babies so soon, but she couldn’t sleep or eat until she saw her Mommy,” an insider tells Star.

As Angie, 33, held the newborns, Shiloh first stared then smiled. She was put on the bed next to them and kissed them on the forehead.

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Two days after giving birth to twins Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline, Angelina Jolie is “doing great,” a rep for the actress tells OK!.

“Mother and children are healthy and doing great,” a rep tells OK!.

Angelina is currently resting at Nice’s Lenval Hospital, where she is expected to remain for up to the next week.

“I think that Mrs Jolie will remain hospitalized [for] seven or ten days”, the actress’ OB/GYN, Dr. Michel Sussman, tells Nice-Martin newspaper.

“You know, in Europe it isn’t like in the United States, where the patients go home after three days,” the doctor said during a press conference yesterday. “They will stay a bit longer until everything is okay.”

Although Angelina wasn’t scheduled to deliver for a few more weeks, the Cesarean section was moved up to Saturday for medical reasons.

“We decided Saturday morning to advance the date of the childbirth of ten days for reasons of comfort for the mom,” Dr. Sussmann said. “And finally, it was the good choice. The babies are splendid.”

The operation took “30 minutes at most” and Dr. Sussmann received some help from “assistant” Brad Pitt in the delivery room.

Knox arrived first at 6:27 p.m., as shown on his birth certificate Nice Mayor Christian Estrosi displayed on Sunday, and sister Vivienne arrived a minute later. Knox tipped the scales at 5.03 lbs while Vivienne clocked in slightly less at 5 lbs. even.

While they’re healthy, the newborns need to remain hospitalized to gain weight. The 33-year-old new mom also needs precautionary “medical attention” as this was her second C-section in two years (she delivered Shiloh via C-section as well).

“It is necessary,” Dr. Sussmann says.

No worries though — everyone is still doing well.

“The babies are fine,” he said. “The babies are with the mother and father and they are fine.”

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