Kate Winslet is award Golden Icon Award during Zurich Film Festival

Kate Winslet cut a stylish figure in a black suit as she was awarded the Golden Icon Award during the Zurich Film Festival in Switzerland on Monday. 

The Oscar winning actress, 49, looked in high spirits as she stopped to pose for selfies with fans outside the theatre. 

The Titanic star looked incredible in the black blazer and trousers which she teamed with a coordinated blouse and towering heels.

Leaving her long blonde tresses loose in neat curls, Kate completed her outfit with a simple gold pendant necklace.

The British actress was given the festival’s Golden Icon Award before the screening of her new film Lee.

She said in a statement: 'Thank you to the Zurich Film Festival for this wonderful honour and for recognising Lee, a film that has truly been a labour of love for me, and of which I am immensely proud.

'I am so grateful to the Zurich Film Festival for creating this moment to celebrate our film and to everyone who has been a part of this epic journey. Lee has been and remains, a pride and joy for me.'

In Lee, Kate portrays Lee Miller, a correspondent for British Vogue during World War II who became one of the most important war photographers of the 20th century.

With Kate starring as Miller in the biopic, the new release also boasts the likes of Josh O'Connor, Marion Cotillard, and Succession star Alexander Skarsgard, among others.

Kate recently claimed she was told to hide her 'belly rolls' while filming, a comment she said she found 'absolutely bizarre' because Miller's body 'would be soft'.

She told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg: 'It was my job to be like Lee. She wasn’t lifting weights and doing Pilates, she was eating cheese, bread and drinking wine and not making a big deal of it, so of course her body would be soft.

'But I think we’re so used to perhaps not necessarily seeing that and enjoying it – the instinct, weirdly, is to see it and criticise it or comment on it in some way. 

'It’s interesting how much people do like labels for women. And they very much liked them in Lee’s day, and, annoyingly, they sort of still do – we slap these labels on women that we just don’t have for men. It’s absolutely bizarre to me.'

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Kate said she believes women should be having conversations about the labels given to women depending on their body shape and 'celebrate being a real shape and being soft'.

She added: 'Life is too short, do you know? I don’t want to look back and go "Why did I worry about that thing?" And so, guess what? I don’t worry anymore. I don’t care.

'I’m just going to live my life, going to enjoy it, get on with it. You’ve got one go around – make the most of it.'

The blockbuster explores Miller's journey from fashion model to acclaimed war correspondent for Vogue magazine during World War II.

Miller's work took her across the whole of Europe, working for the Allied forces and teaming up with fellow American photographer David E. Scherman, a correspondent for Life magazine. 

Her collection includes incredible photos she took documenting the end of the war, traveled to France less than a month after D-Day and to record the Siege of the heavily fortified city of St. Malo.

She also witnessed the liberation of Paris, the Battle of Alsace, and the horrors of the first soldiers arriving at Nazi concentration camps at Buchenwald and Dachau.

And while visiting Germany, David Scherman took a photograph of Miller lying in the bathtub of Adolf Hitler's apartment in Munich, with its shower hose looped in the center behind her head, resembling a noose.

The images became one of the most iconic of their partnership, and showed off her infamous modelling skills.

One of only two women combat photographers during World War II, she was also one of the few female correspondents who ventured into the liberated concentration camps. 

WHO WAS PHOTOJOURNALIST LEE MILLER? 

Lee Miller went from appearing in American Vogue to witnessing first hand the horrors of Nazi Germany - becoming one of the most important photographers to record the 20th century.

Her talents were first put on full display in American Vogue during the 1920s when she became one of the country's most sough-after models. 

Before the Second World War, she worked as a 20s cover girl and worked with surrealist artists in Europe before she embarked on a photojournalism career.

In 1929, when her modelling career hit controversy when her image was used in a menstrual pad advert, Miller went to Paris with the intention of apprenticing herself to the surrealist artist and photographer Man Ray. 

She honed her skills under the guidance of the great photographers of her day, including Man Ray, her became her lover during the early 1930s. 

She felt that photography was 'ideally suited to women as a profession, for it seems to me that women are quicker and more adaptable than men. And I think they have an intuition that helps them understand personalities more quickly than men'. 

After a stint living in Cairo, she returned to Paris, where she met the British surrealist painter and curator Roland Penrose, who would go on to teach the use of camouflage on the Second World War. 

Living in Hampstead, north London with Penrose when the bombing of the city began, Miller decided to embark on a new career in photojournalism as the official war photographer for Vogue, documenting the Blitz.

Her work would later take her across the whole of Europe, working for the Allied forces and teaming up with fellow American photographer David E. Scherman, a correspondent for Life magazine.

One of only two women combat photographers during World War II, she was also one of the few female correspondents who ventured into the liberated concentration camps. 

Her collection includes incredible photos she took documenting the end of the war, traveled to France less than a month after D-Day and to record the Siege of the heavily fortified city of St. Malo.

She also witnessed the liberation of Paris, the Battle of Alsace, and the horrors of the first soldiers arriving at Nazi concentration camps at Buchenwald and Dachau.

And while visiting Germany, David Scherman took a photograph of Miller lying in the bathtub of Adolf Hitler's apartment in Munich, with its shower hose looped in the center behind her head, resembling a noose.

The images became one of the most iconic of their partnership, and showed off her infamous modelling skills.

It is believed Miller had kept the address of Hitler's apartment in her pocket 'for years', hoping to be one of the first to arrive during the invasion. After taking the bathtub picture, Miller took a bath in the tub and slept in Hitler's bed.

After returning to the UK, Miller buried the record of her remarkable life in boxes in the attic of her Sussex home - and they were not found until after her death by her son, who was able to chronicle her achievements, according to the BBC.

She spent the later years of her life in England and died there in 1977, aged 70.